Re: [TLS] Editorial: chronological order in ECH draft

Carrick Bartle <cbartle891@icloud.com> Thu, 24 June 2021 21:21 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] Editorial: chronological order in ECH draft
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Thanks for the feedback, all!

> On Jun 23, 2021, at 4:50 PM, Christopher Patton <cpatton=40cloudflare.com@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote:
> 
> +1 to new readers! I think a chronological description would be a good starting point, though like MT, I suspect there would be rearranging to do afterwards that would break with a strictly chronological description.
> 
> Chris P.
> 
> On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 4:48 PM Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie <mailto:stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie>> wrote:
> 
> 
> On 24/06/2021 00:37, Martin Thomson wrote:
> > Whatever you can do to improve the readability of this document would
> > be greatly appreciated. 
> 
> +1 though I have to admit I've really been mostly looking
> at diffs at this stage - probably some new readers/coders
> are needed,
> 
> S.
> 
> > It's a complicated design and I always spend
> > far too much time trying to find answers to my questions.  A better
> > structure would be appreciated.
> > 
> > I do find that questions aren't always about behaviour.  They are
> > also about protocol elements, and those a scattered piecemeal
> > throughout.  So I would be disappointed if any restructuring were
> > limited to just getting the time sequence straightened out.
> > 
> > On Thu, Jun 24, 2021, at 09:04, Carrick Bartle wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >> 
> >> I'm bringing
> >> https://github.com/tlswg/draft-ietf-tls-esni/issues/412 <https://github.com/tlswg/draft-ietf-tls-esni/issues/412> to the list
> >> since it looks like we're (hopefully) getting close to the end game
> >> with ECH.
> >> 
> >> The ECH draft is currently organized such that it describes all
> >> client behavior and then all server behavior. Personally, I find
> >> this very confusing to follow, and I'm constantly having to flip
> >> back and forth between sections (which themselves constantly refer
> >> to each other). Does anyone object to my rearranging the content to
> >> be in more of the order in which things occur rather than being
> >> divided into client and server sections? Of course, depending on
> >> how I do it, it could end up being *more* confusing, but I just
> >> wanted to see if people were opposed to it in principle.
> >> 
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