Re: [TLS] Editorial: chronological order in ECH draft

Carrick Bartle <cbartle891@icloud.com> Thu, 24 June 2021 02:01 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] Editorial: chronological order in ECH draft
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Cool. I might leave that for a different PR, but if something along those lines seems obvious or necessary, I'll go ahead and do it.


> On Jun 23, 2021, at 4:37 PM, Martin Thomson <mt@lowentropy.net> wrote:
> 
> Whatever you can do to improve the readability of this document would be greatly appreciated.  It's a complicated design and I always spend far too much time trying to find answers to my questions.  A better structure would be appreciated.
> 
> I do find that questions aren't always about behaviour.  They are also about protocol elements, and those a scattered piecemeal throughout.  So I would be disappointed if any restructuring were limited to just getting the time sequence straightened out.
> 
> On Thu, Jun 24, 2021, at 09:04, Carrick Bartle wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I'm bringing https://github.com/tlswg/draft-ietf-tls-esni/issues/412 to 
>> the list since it looks like we're (hopefully) getting close to the end 
>> game with ECH.
>> 
>> The ECH draft is currently organized such that it describes all client 
>> behavior and then all server behavior. Personally, I find this very 
>> confusing to follow, and I'm constantly having to flip back and forth 
>> between sections (which themselves constantly refer to each other). 
>> Does anyone object to my rearranging the content to be in more of the 
>> order in which things occur rather than being divided into client and 
>> server sections? Of course, depending on how I do it, it could end up 
>> being *more* confusing, but I just wanted to see if people were opposed 
>> to it in principle.
>> 
>> Carrick
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