Re: [TLS] Result of Working Group Last Call for draft-ietf-tls-padding-01

Yoav Nir <ynir.ietf@gmail.com> Sun, 22 March 2015 18:21 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] Result of Working Group Last Call for draft-ietf-tls-padding-01
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> On Mar 22, 2015, at 12:54 PM, Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 22 March 2015 at 10:29, Joseph Salowey <joe@salowey.net> wrote:
>> Below is my proto writeup for the draft-ietf-tls-padding-01.  Since there
>> were no comments on the draft during the last call I am going to request the
>> intended status as informational as the draft is documenting specific
>> practice that was used to work around a few specific implementations
>> problems that are being phased out.   If you would rather see the draft as
>> historic or standards track please respond to this message by March 27,
>> 2015.
> 
> I see no reason not to move for PS, but could live with Info.

The question is whether this is behavior that we want to standardize or a workaround that we want to document. 

Five years from now, and giving you the power to force everyone to upgrade their software, do you want this being used?

Yoav