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[TLS] Next steps for draft-ietf-tls-renegotiation

<Pasi.Eronen@nokia.com> Fri, 27 November 2009 22:26 UTC

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<wearing Area Director hat>

I have asked the secretariat to start IETF Last Call for
draft-rescorla-tls-renegotiation-01.

I've gone through the list archives for the past month, and it seems a
large majority of the WG members support the overall approach in this
draft (with a small, but very vocal, minority preferring a totally
extension-less approach to signalling).

I think the users of TLS at this point are served better by a timely
solution that works and is "good enough", rather than continuing the
tweaking. Especially since a large majority of the WG is OK with the
signalling approach in the current draft, it looks like continuing to
tweak the non-signalling parts is not going to provide any significant
additional benefits to the users of TLS.

The exact text in the -01 draft is still a bit rough (a number of
places could probably benefit from clarifications, and perhaps some
implementation advice, too), and I hope we can continue improving it
during the last call (for example, Martin's draft has lot of
well-written text we should probably consider including here). 

Best regards,
Pasi
IETF Security Area Director

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