Re: TLS requirements (Last Call: draft-ietf-atompub-protocol to Proposed Standard)

["Robert Sayre" <sayrer at gmail.com>]

On 3/14/07, EKR <ekr at networkresonance.com> wrote:
> Julian Reschke <julian.reschke at gmx.de> writes:
>
> >
> > As pointed out before, that text really is confusing. As a reader. I'm
> > left wondering whether I need to implement RFC2246 or RFC4346. Or both?
>
> I wish I knew the answer to this question as well... :)
>
> Seriously, we're shortly going three separate versions of TLS
> standardized, 1.0, 1.1, and 1.2, plus SSLv3. So, the question
> of what to require implementors to do is a tricky one that
> actually doesn't have that much to do with TLS :)

Here's a diff of the changes since last call:
<http://bitworking.org/projects/atom/draft-ietf-atompub-protocol-15-from-14.diff.html>

It's not clear whether there will be another last call, though I think
there should be. So, I will leave my comments again. I didn't see any
working group comments on the topic.

I think the substituted text is inadequate, because it is not clear
which TLS version implementors MUST support. As I understand it, the
fact that it is "tricky", implying there may be trade-offs, is not
sufficient to avoid specifying a single, mandatory-to-implement TLS
version.

--

Robert Sayre

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