[TLS] renegotiation draft needs clarification !!

[Nelson B Bolyard <[e-mail]>]

At least Two implementers have read the draft differently and implemented
non-interoperable implementations.  The draft needs clarification.

First the draft says:

   The "extension data" field of this extension contains a
   "Renegotiation_Info" structure:

             struct {
               opaque renegotiated_connection<0..255>;
             } Renegotiation_Info;

Then it says:

   The contents of this extension are specified as follows.

   o  If this is the initial handshake for a connection, then this field
      is of zero length in both the ClientHello and the ServerHello.

One implementer interprets this to mean that the extension data field
is of zero length.  Another interprets it to mean that the
"renegotiated_connection" field inside the Renegotiation_Info is to
have zero length.  This leads to two different encodings, which are:

  FF 01 00 00

  FF 01 00 01 00

I suggest replacing "the contents of this extension" with either
"The contents of the renegotiated_connection", or
"the contents of the extension data field", to make this sufficiently
explicit.

/Nelson