On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 01:49:49PM -0700, Eric Rescorla wrote:
> "Nobody must ever be *required* to send an alert. Any requirement for
> sending an alert should be SHOULD, at most."
Interoperability problems are hard enough to debug even when alerts
are sent, and they are *very* useful. If the peer just hangs up,
we don't know whether it crashed, refused service, enforced some
protocol or policy constraint, ...
I help many users debug TLS connectivity issues, and would be
considerably hampered in this without alert information.
--
Viktor.
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