Re: [TLS] call for consensus: changes to IANA registry rules for cipher suites

["Dan Harkins" <[e-mail]>]

On Sun, April 3, 2016 7:24 pm, Salz, Rich wrote:
>
>>   A stable, publicly available document is basically an RFC.
>
> Not always; ISO et al.

  That's why I said "basically"; it's a qualifier.

  But keep in mind what kind of stable, publicly available
document needs to be published: a description not of the algorithm
but of how that algorithm get crammed into the TLS exchange.
(For example, not RFC 7539 which describes chacha20+poly1305 as
a glot but draft-ietf-tls-chacha20-poly1305 which says how to cram
that glot into TLS). So even if some one/company was able to get a
National Body to push in in ISO I doubt ISO would entertain
documents whose content was "cram alg described elsewhere into
TLS like this" with changes to ServerKeyExchange etc.

  Dan.