[TLS] Media types "application/tls" and "application/ssl", and URIs for schemes "tls" and "ssl"

2023-12-20 Thread arkiver
Hi TLS Working Group, This is a question about media types and URIs that are not defined for TLS and SSL in their RFCs. I would like to define and start using these, if the proposed definition looks reasonable. First a short introduction on what we would use this for, and then the proposed defi

Re: [TLS] Media types "application/tls" and "application/ssl", and URIs for schemes "tls" and "ssl"

2023-12-20 Thread Eric Rescorla
Can you explain why a URI type needs to be defined? If one needs to be defined, then: - It should not have a generic name like "ssl" or "tls". That will confuse people and there's no sense in which you would use it to initiate a TLS connection. - You shouldn't define different URIs for SSL and TLS

Re: [TLS] Media types "application/tls" and "application/ssl", and URIs for schemes "tls" and "ssl"

2023-12-20 Thread Salz, Rich
The Media Type registration system is in flux and is about to become much more open. Go to their WG page, https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/mediaman/documents/, and look at the “Guidelines” and “Allowing Community Registrations” documents. Like Eric, I don’t see why a URI is needed and look forw

Re: [TLS] Adoption call for 'TLS 1.2 Feature Freeze'

2023-12-20 Thread Deirdre Connolly
Hi all, Thanks to everyone who chimed in on this adoption call. It looks like there is consensus to adopt this as a WG item and volunteers to help review. Rich, can you please submit draft-ietf-tls-tls12-frozen-00 to datatracker, and transfer the GitHub repo to the tlswg GitHub org? Thank you! Ch