[TLS] Re: Ketan Talaulikar's No Objection on draft-ietf-tls-tls12-frozen-07: (with COMMENT)

[Peter Gutmann <[e-mail]>]

Eric Rescorla <[e-mail]> writes:

>This is a somewhat clearly unspecified set, and in the first sentence (which
>you trimmed for some reason), I explicitly express some concern about this
>ambiguity.

That's not really helping your case.  The bit I cut (the OP's text and the
start of yours) to avoid quoting a huge block of text never mentioned the web,
or anything else specific, but adding that to the quoted text would emphasise
even more that you responded to a nonspecific comment with a reply that
assumed that nothing apart from the web exists.  Your "explicitly expressed
concern" just says "I assume everyone's using a web browser" ("Under the
assumption you mean "our customers", then those people are probably coming in
via a Web browser") which is exactly the point I was making: The assumption is
that if someone is using TLS then it must be web use.  Nothing else gets any
consideration, and the WG has been like that for years (with a token
acknowledgement of use by telcos because they're big enough that you can't
really ignore them).

Peter.