Re: [TLS] Deprecating alert levels

2016-10-19 Thread Martin Rex
Kyle Nekritz wrote: > >> This list is already missing the warning-level "unrecognized_name" alert, >> and such a change would imply that all new/unrecognized alerts are going >> to be treated as fatal forever (i.e. that no new warning-level alerts >> can ever be defined). > > That alert is curren

Re: [TLS] Deprecating alert levels

2016-10-19 Thread Joseph Salowey
It does not look like we have sufficient consensus to adopt this PR. While there is some support for simplifying alerts by removing the alert level, the current discussion raises some issues about the general approach. 1. Is it appropriate for all unknown alerts to be treated as fatal? (the curr

Re: [TLS] Deprecating alert levels

2016-10-19 Thread Eric Rescorla
On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 11:24 AM, Joseph Salowey wrote: > It does not look like we have sufficient consensus to adopt this PR. > While there is some support for simplifying alerts by removing the alert > level, the current discussion raises some issues about the general > approach. > > 1. Is it

Re: [TLS] Deprecating alert levels

2016-10-19 Thread Martin Thomson
On 20 October 2016 at 05:28, Eric Rescorla wrote: >> 2. Are there cases, such as unrecognized name. where it is useful to >> indicate that an alert is not fatal? If so how should this case be handled? > > > I think this alert was a mistake :) In NSS is to tolerate it, but it's an exception. I'

Re: [TLS] Deprecating alert levels

2016-10-19 Thread Martin Thomson
On 20 October 2016 at 13:18, Martin Thomson wrote: > In NSS is to tolerate it *(Learn to write fool) In NSS we tolerate warning alerts ___ TLS mailing list TLS@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/tls