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

Henrick Hellström <henrick@streamsec.se> Wed, 30 March 2016 16:03 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] call for consensus: changes to IANA registry rules for cipher suites
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On 2016-03-30 17:33, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
> I am not sure that we want to be in the business of explicitly marking
> things as insecure other than our own RFCs, though -- there could be an
> implication of more review than is actually the case, which is what this
> proposal is trying to get rid of.

So how about explicitly marking things as "obsolete" instead?