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Re: [TLS] COMMENT: draft-ietf-tls-renegotiation

Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu> Mon, 14 December 2009 19:44 UTC

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On Dec 14, 2009, at 2:19 PM, Russ Housley wrote:

> Comment:
> 
>  As a protocol climbs the IETF standards-track maturity ladder, we
>  sometimes drop features.  I would rather see renegotiation dropped
>  from TLS than see this complexity added to TLS protocol.

Works for me.


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb

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