On Tue 2016-03-29 21:53:13 -0400, Sean Turner wrote: > 1. The IANA registry rules for the TLS cipher suite registry [1] will be > changed to specification required. > > 2. A new “IETF Recommended” column will be added with two values: “Y” or “N”. > Y and N have the following meaning: > > Cipher suites marked with a “Y” the IETF has consensus on > and are reasonably expected to be supported by widely > used implementations such as open-source libraries. The > IETF takes no position on the cipher suites marked with an > “N”. Not IETF recommended does not necessarily (but can) > mean that the ciphers are not cryptographically sound (i.e., > are bad). Cipher suites can be recategorized from N to Y > (e.g., Curve448) and vice versa. > > 3. We will add a “Note" to the IANA registry itself (i.e., on [0]) that > matches the above so that the same information is available to those who > don’t read the IANA considerations section of the RFC. > > Please indicate whether or not you could support this plan.
I support this plan. --dkg _______________________________________________ TLS mailing list TLS@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/tls
