[TLS] Status of Cha-Cha/Poly Cipher Suites?

[Jeffrey Walton <[e-mail]>]

What is the status of cipher suite values for the CHA-CHA/Poly Cipher suites?

The Chrome browser is now warning when either AES/GCM or CHA-CHA/Poly
Cipher suites are not used.

Lack of the cipher suite values is holding up OpenSSL's implementation. [1]

If the IETF considers Chrome (26% market share [2]) and Apache/OpenSSL
based servers (52% market share [3]), then it appears, then the cipher
suite values are long overdue.

Assigning the cipher suite values (whether the TLS WG approves of them
or not) appear to be consistent with RFC 3935:

   In attempting to resolve the question of the IETF's scope, perhaps
   the fairest balance is struck by this formulation: "protocols and
   practices for which secure and scalable implementations are expected
   to have wide deployment and interoperation on the Internet, or to
   form part of the infrastructure of the Internet."

The cipher suites already affects millions to billions of users and devices.

[1] https://mta.openssl.org/pipermail/openssl-users/2015-March/000866.html
[2] https://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=0&qpcustomd=0
[3] http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2014/04/02/april-2014-web-server-survey.html