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Re: [TLS] Drop "1.x" from future TLS version names?

Loganaden Velvindron <loganaden@gmail.com> Mon, 20 August 2018 15:38 UTC

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From: Loganaden Velvindron <loganaden@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 19:38:52 +0400
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Subject: Re: [TLS] Drop "1.x" from future TLS version names?
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On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 7:28 PM, Tony Arcieri <bascule@gmail.com> wrote:
> Apologies if the last thing people want to talk about right now is the next
> version of TLS.
>
> There was much discussion about bumping TLS 1.3's version number to "TLS 4"
> or thereabouts (so as to be higher than "SSLv3"). The ship has sailed on
> that and it is "TLS 1.3".
>
> I think there was widespread agreement that TLS 1.3 represented something a
> bit more substantial than a minor version bump, and a desire to have a TLS
> version number bigger than the SSL version number lest people get confused
> and deploy SSLv3 instead of TLS 1.3.
>
> Modest proposal: TLS 1.4 => TLS 4
>
> I bring this up so soon because I think a lot of the pushback regarding
> doing this before was due to changing the version so late in the development
> cycle.

I think that it's too late for that now.

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