[TLS] Re: Discussion about the Deployment Decision

["Salz, Rich" <[e-mail]>]

On 8/5/26, 2:12 PM, "Paul Romer" <romerp=[e-mail]> wrote:

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- What I was referring to when I used the word "consensus" is a
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general state of agreement among the members of the group.

The IETF works on the concept of “rough consensus.” Perhaps you need to immerse yourself more.


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we need to start with
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estimates about how often various devices do the calculations required
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to set up a TLS 1.3 connection and measurements of the computational
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...
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. From this data, one can construct the distribution and use it
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to give a more complete device specific analysis of the decision about
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which of the two protocols to deploy. For TLS connections, I imagine
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that if a smart card is involved, it is used in conjunction with some
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other device that has a network connection. To consider that case,
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we'd need to know about the other device.

I cannot imagine the IETF having the expertise, let alone the interest, in doing this kind of thing. It’s not what we do.  We define protocols to make the Internet work better by interoperating with each other. Even if we started doing that, you need to characterize the traffic so you can estimate what percentage of the work, and the bytes transferred, is part of the handshake as opposed to the bulk encryption part.