Peter Gutmann <pgut...@cs.auckland.ac.nz> writes:

> Hubert Kario <hka...@redhat.com> writes:
> 
> >to be pedantic, the RFC describes itself "a profile" while in reality it
> >modifies the protocol in a way that will make it incompatible with "vanilla"
> >TLS 1.2 implementations
> 
> Oh, right.  Well that's easily fixed, I used "profile" because I
> couldn't think of a better term, the best I could come up with is
> "plan", but it's not really a plan either.  If people think "plan"
> is better than "profile", and it deals with Russ' objection, I'll
> change it to that.  Alternatively, if you can think of a better term
> than "plan", let me know (or forever hold your peace :-).

I think an appropriate title might be

 The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol
 Version 1.2.1 Update

because that's what this is, isn't it?  It's a new version of the
protocol with minor but significant changes.

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