On Monday, November 9, 2015 4:34 PM, Eric Rescorla wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 4:30 PM, Christian Huitema <huit...@microsoft.com> 
> wrote:
>
>...
>> Editorial: your proposed text says "...MUST set the first six  bytes of its 
>> Random value 
>> to the the bytes 44 4F 57 4E 47 52 44 01." I assume you mean the first 8 
>> bytes, and that 
>> you do not really want to have "the" twice.
>
> Fixed.

Thanks

>> Could you also add a reference to the document that specifies using 44 4F  
>> 57 4E 47 52 
>> 44 00 by "TLS 1.2 servers which are  negotiating TLS 1.1 or below" ?
>
> We don't have one. Wasn't totally sure how to handle that.

I suspected that. Spent sometimes looking for text in published RFC, could not 
find it. I suspect that many readers will fall in the same trap and lose some 
time. Could you add text explaining that this is an undocumented feature of 
some implementations, and that we are recommending its use? Or something to 
that effect...

-- Christian Huitema



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