Re: [TLS] Analysis of Interop scenarios TLS extension RI w/MCSV

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

On 2009-12-10 18:55 PST, Martin Rex wrote:
> Nelson B Bolyard wrote:
>>>>> That is interesting information. Would you happen to have a copy of the
>>>>> last "official" spec you can send me?
>>>> Netscape's official SSLv3 spec as of 2005:
>>>> http://web.archive.org/web/20050207004652/wp.netscape.com/eng/ssl3/3-SPEC.HTM
>>> That's pretty clear, SSLv3 did not have a provision for extending Client
>>> Hello.
>>>
>>>> As obvious from it's name that spec is a product of the TLS WG and
>>>> the TLS WG decided to completely abandon (instead of publishing as
>>>> informational RFC) that document so that it expired and vanished
>>>> from the I-D repository 6 month later.
>>> Seems like SSLv3 was simultaneously one of the most critical protocols
>>> for net security and orphaned.
>> Stop right there.  Don't be led down the garden path.
>>
>> Look at the parent page.  Look at
>> http://web.archive.org/web/20050205162914/wp.netscape.com/eng/ssl3/


> Keeping an old version of a specification around in a MUCH
> MORE promentiently fashion for 9 years tells a lot about what
> Netscape thought of the draft-302.txt document.

It's not "much more prominent".  It's merely HTML.  Prettier, perhaps.

It amuses me that you tell me what Netscape did and didn't do with those
pages, because *I* was the Netscape employee who maintained that section
of the web site from 1998-2005, beginning when I implemented TLS 1.0
in Netscape's NSS.