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Re: [TLS] Confirming consensus: TLS1.3->TLS*

Bill Frantz <frantz@pwpconsult.com> Fri, 02 December 2016 04:56 UTC

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On 12/2/16 at 8:48 PM, rsalz@akamai.com (Salz, Rich) wrote:

>And also, the world will not care about a gap in numbering.  Nobody cared that there was no Windows 9.

If we go with 2017, we can tell the world that by using the year 
the standard was approved, instead of a confusing set of names 
and numbers, we are eliminating any confusion about which 
version is the most recent.

Cheers - Bill

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