[TLS] Robert Wilton's No Objection on draft-ietf-tls-oldversions-deprecate-11: (with COMMENT)

Robert Wilton via Datatracker <noreply@ietf.org> Tue, 12 January 2021 18:14 UTC

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Subject: [TLS] Robert Wilton's No Objection on draft-ietf-tls-oldversions-deprecate-11: (with COMMENT)
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Robert Wilton has entered the following ballot position for
draft-ietf-tls-oldversions-deprecate-11: No Objection

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Thank you for purging the old versions of TLS.

There is one sentence in the abstract that I found surprising (if it is right).

The abstract states: "TLSv1.2 has been the
   recommended version for IETF protocols since 2008, providing
   sufficient time to transition away from older versions."

Should this be "minimum recommended version"?  Otherwise, I don't understand
why the recommended version of TLS is 1.2 rather than 1.3 (given that the TLS
1.2 RFC is marked as obsolete).