Re: [TLS] To API or not (Re: TLS renegotiation issue)

[Marsh Ray <marsh at extendedsubset.com>]

Blumenthal, Uri - 0662 - MITLL wrote:
> IETF can't write precise API because those are application-specific.

s/can't/shouldn't/   ?

It bugs me the way w3c goes as far as specifying that some APIs must use
UTF-16 host-endian for their string representation, even for things
usually accessed from scripting languages.

> I think that abstract interfaces would be useful for TLS.

I agree.

Somebody would have noticed that they were adding a new layer to the
model, and it would have forced an interface change which either would
have been rejected or documented properly.

- Marsh