Re: [TLS] Proposed text for removing renegotiation

[Eric Rescorla <[e-mail]>]

On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 8:11 AM, Salz, Rich <[e-mail]> wrote:

> > What about this solution: separate TLS into a handshake and transport.
>
> That's a very interesting idea.  The "HTTP/1.1 update" did that, turning
> RFC2616 into something like seven separate, albeit interlocked, RFC's.


As I noted in my response to Watson, TLS does already attempt to
make this split inside the RFC (Sections 6 and 7) so this seems like
more a document structure question than a technical one. IIRC when
HTTP did this, it was partly motivated by concerns that the document
was getting unwieldy and indeed RFC 2616 is quite a bit larger than
TLS (176 versus 104 pages).

As part of what we are trying to do with TLS 1.3 is to remove stuff
(my local draft with the initial non-AEAD removal is down to 94 pages)
I'd prefer to keep everything in one place, at least, for now.

Best,
-Ekr