Re: [TLS] TLS Flags and IANA registration policy

Ira McDonald <blueroofmusic@gmail.com> Tue, 26 October 2021 15:26 UTC

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From: Ira McDonald <blueroofmusic@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2021 11:26:16 -0400
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To: Hannes Tschofenig <Hannes.Tschofenig@arm.com>, Ira McDonald <blueroofmusic@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [TLS] TLS Flags and IANA registration policy
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Hi,

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.

Cheers,
- Ira


On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 10:45 AM Hannes Tschofenig <
Hannes.Tschofenig@arm.com> wrote:

> Rich, this makes more sense. Maybe the column should say "IETF Consensus"
> (Y/N) instead of Recommended.
>
> In any case, the draft should say what recommended means for the flags
> values.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: TLS <tls-bounces@ietf.org> On Behalf Of Salz, Rich
> Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 3:19 PM
> To: Ilari Liusvaara <ilariliusvaara@welho.com>; IETF TLS <tls@ietf.org>
> Subject: Re: [TLS] TLS Flags and IANA registration policy
>
> The Recommended column is "was this done via IETF consensus."  Some of the
> values you think are odd are from pre-1.3, done by consensus, even if the
> protocol is now outdated by 1.3
>
> If there are some 1.0 and 1.1 extensions that are not defined in 1.2, then
> that deprecation draft should suggest IANA changes.
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