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Re: [TLS] Certificate Compression: Add Zstd Code Point?

Alessandro Ghedini <alessandro@ghedini.me> Thu, 04 April 2019 20:45 UTC

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Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2019 21:45:42 +0100
From: Alessandro Ghedini <alessandro@ghedini.me>
To: Victor Vasiliev <vasilvv=40google.com@dmarc.ietf.org>
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Subject: Re: [TLS] Certificate Compression: Add Zstd Code Point?
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On Mon, Apr 01, 2019 at 06:09:16PM -0400, Victor Vasiliev wrote:
> This sounds reasonable to me.  I currently don't have a plan for
> implementing this, but since zstd is well-defined and has an RFC published
> (that I can easily cite), I see no reason not to add it.
> 
> I wrote up a PR: https://github.com/tlswg/certificate-compression/pull/26.
> I will merge it before the last call, unless there are objections.

This seems pretty inoffensive (just one more allocated codepoint), and it's
already been a few days and nobody seems to object.

We'd like to submit a new draft version so we can finally go to WGLC, so if
nobody objects by tomorrow I'll just merge the PR and upload the draft.

Cheers

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