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Re: [TLS] TLS Flags and IANA registration policy

Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> Fri, 29 October 2021 18:47 UTC

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From: Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2021 11:46:38 -0700
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To: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz=40akamai.com@dmarc.ietf.org>
Cc: Ira McDonald <blueroofmusic@gmail.com>, Hannes Tschofenig <Hannes.Tschofenig@arm.com>, IETF TLS <tls@ietf.org>
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Subject: Re: [TLS] TLS Flags and IANA registration policy
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I am actually not in favor of changing it to IETF Consensus. I think these
have different meanings.

I prefer: Recommended/Not Recommended/Discouraged


On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 7:37 AM Salz, Rich <rsalz=
40akamai.com@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote:

>
>    - I agree that the "Recommended" column in the IANA registry (which is
>    frequently misunderstood)
>
>
>    - should just be renamed to "IETF Consensus".  Obvious and
>    self-explanatory.
>
>
>
> The way to do that is to get an RFC out that makes that change.  It could
> be stand-alone, or part of another (like the 8446bis draft,
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tls-rfc8446bis/)  The first
> step might be to ask for five minutes at the next meeting and bring it up.
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