https://github.com/tlswg/tls13-spec/issues/472

http://tlswg.github.io/tls13-spec/#error-alerts says:

  Therefore, warning alerts are not very useful when
  the sending party wants to continue the connection, and thus are sometimes
  omitted. For example, if a party decides to accept an expired certificate
  (perhaps after confirming this with the user) and wants to continue the
  connection, it would not generally send a "certificate_expired" alert.

It would probably be simpler to require that alerts either be warning or
fatal and that
the only warning alerts are the "Closure Alerts" specified in
http://tlswg.github.io/tls13-spec/#closure-alerts (or in some update
document)
rather than expect people to handle some warning version of the Error
Alerts.

Thoughts?
-Ekr
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