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

Ilari Liusvaara <ilariliusvaara@welho.com> Fri, 18 November 2016 12:19 UTC

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Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 14:19:10 +0200
From: Ilari Liusvaara <ilariliusvaara@welho.com>
To: Sean Turner <sean@sn3rd.com>
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Subject: Re: [TLS] Confirming consensus: TLS1.3->TLS*
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On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 11:12:48AM +0900, 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:

I say leave it.

I would leave that sort of version changes to really major shifts where
the compatiblity is completely broken. And TLS 1.3 is not that major
change.


-Ilari

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