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[TLS] Re: 【Reply to the comments after the presentation in Montreal】RE: Re: FW: New Version Notification for draft-wang-tls-service-affinity-00.txt

Martin Thomson <mt@lowentropy.net> Mon, 05 January 2026 01:33 UTC

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Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2026 12:32:56 +1100
From: Martin Thomson <mt@lowentropy.net>
To: Aijun Wang <wangaijun@tsinghua.org.cn>, Christian Huitema <huitema@huitema.net>, Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>
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On Mon, Jan 5, 2026, at 12:11, Aijun Wang wrote:
> I think Christian gave the detail explanation for the reason that we 
> needs not, or should not touch the application logic themselves. 

That is not what I read.  Christian said:

> [...] I am not convinced at all by a proposition to 
insert a "session data continuity" mechanism at the TLS layer. Such 
functionality is application dependent, it belongs to the application, [...]

I agree.  Building a session layer is an application protocol concern.

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