[Unbearable] Ben Campbell's Yes on draft-ietf-tokbind-negotiation-12: (with COMMENT)

Ben Campbell <ben@nostrum.com> Wed, 09 May 2018 20:05 UTC

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Ben Campbell has entered the following ballot position for
draft-ietf-tokbind-negotiation-12: Yes

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Thanks for this document. I am balloting "yes", but have a few comments:

- I support Alexey's DISCUSS. Additionally, do I understand the version
negotiation to require the client to support all previous version from the one
it initially advertises? If so, how would you deprecate a version at some time
in the future?

- I shared some of the confusion about this being limited to TLS 1.2 and
earlier. In particular, there is repeating language that to the effect of "For
TLS 1.2 and earlier...", which seems strange for a draft that only supports 1.2
in the first place.

§1.1: Please consider using the 8174 boilerplate across the cluster. While I
did not find lower case keywords in this draft, I did in the other two and it
would be best to be consistent across all three.

§2: "[I-D.ietf-tokbind-protocol] describes version {1, 0} of the protocol.":
While one might infer that version to be {1,0} give the name "Token Binding
1.0", I never saw it explicitly mentioned.

Editorial Comments:

§2: "Please note that the server MAY select any lower protocol version, see
Section 3": comma splice