Re: [TLS] Text for draft-ietf-tls-rfc4366-bis

Martin Rex <mrex@sap.com> Thu, 27 May 2010 18:13 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] Text for draft-ietf-tls-rfc4366-bis
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Joseph Salowey wrote:
> 
> After an offline discussion with Martin I think we really should remove
> the sentence " The client MAY omit the extension..." Omitting the
> extension seems like a really bad idea, because if the session is not
> resumed the client may establish a session with different
> characteristics than what was intended. So now we have:

Thank you for you efforts.

I'm fine with this clarification.


-Martin

PS: maybe some others (in particular who discussed this particular
    topic) could provide their feedback so that Joe gets somewhat more
    than deafening silence to determine whether there is consensus.  ;-)