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

[Hugo Krawczyk <[e-mail]>]

If it wasn't because we don't need more noise in this discussion I would
have suggested SSL 5.0 which seems to be the logical conclusion from the
reasoning people are using. Clearly, everyone thinks that the battle of
replacing "SSL" with "TLS" in the popular and technical references to the
standard has been lost and there is not much hope to win it in the future.
So if the mountain won't come to  Muhammad then go back to SSL and call it
SSL 5.0 leaving SSL 4.0 as an historic parallel/re-naming of TLS 1.0. (Also
note that the two 'S' of SSL already hint to the number 5 and L is 50 in
Roman numerals.)

On a more serious note, I would keep a minor option in whatever is chosen
(e.g. 4.0). The reason is that I can see more resistance in the future to
minor revisions if such revision needs to be called TLS 5 rather than 4.1.
However, minor but crucial revisions may be needed sooner than one hopes
for and delaying them for when more changes are accumulated is not a good
thing.

Hugo