Re: [TLS] Confirming consensus: TLS1.3->TLS*

[Andrey Jivsov <[e-mail]>]

On 11/17/2016 06:12 PM, Sean Turner wrote:
> At IETF 97, the chairs lead a discussion to resolve whether the WG should rebrand TLS1.3 to something else.  Slides can be found @ https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/97/slides/slides-97-tls-rebranding-aka-pr612-01.pdf.
>
> The consensus in the room was to leave it as is, i.e., TLS1.3, and to not rebrand it to TLS 2.0, TLS 2, or TLS 4.  We need to confirm this decision on the list so please let the list know your top choice between:
>
> - Leave it TLS 1.3
> - Rebrand TLS 2.0
> - Rebrand TLS 2
> - Rebrand TLS 4
>
> by 2 December 2016.
>
...

TLS 4.


TLS 1.3 introduces major changes to message flow and substantial 
redesign of crypto.

I will respectfully remind that earlier this year the WG has made a 
decision to break backward compatibility with large number of devices by 
rejecting an option to extend allowed in TLS 1.3 RSA PKCS#1.5 signature 
padding scheme to all portions of the handshake. The solution was that 
these peers must keep using TLS 1.2 
https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tls/current/msg19360.html .

Changes of this magnitude are not typically associated with a "dot" 
release.

+ what other said on confusion with SSL. I don't see this one as a big 
deal, but I will go with the consensus of "4.0" v.s "2.0". "1.3" is the 
worst choice here.