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Re: [TLS] RFC8447bis

Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> Fri, 12 November 2021 17:15 UTC

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From: Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2021 09:14:26 -0800
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To: John Mattsson <john.mattsson=40ericsson.com@dmarc.ietf.org>
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Subject: Re: [TLS] RFC8447bis
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I am fine with this change.

On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 11:36 PM John Mattsson <john.mattsson=
40ericsson.com@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
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>
> My biggest concern with the "Recommended" column that I raised some year
> ago is that most people I meet in other SDOs as well as developers using
> TLS tend to believe that "Recommended" means "Recommended to use". This
> is unfortunate as there is a huge difference between "recommended to
> support" and "recommended to use". The RFC8447bis authors and TLS chairs
> also made this mistake in their slides this week. It is a very easy mistake
> to make.
>
>
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> Can we plese rename the column to "Recommended to support". I would also
> suggest to change the text so in RFC8447 as well as the notes in the IANA
> registries to talk about "Recommended to support" instead of just
> "Recommended"
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> Cheers,
>
> John
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