On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 2:33 PM, Sean Turner <s...@sn3rd.com> wrote: > All, > > The chairs would like to get some eyes on this PR by this Friday (Sept 9th) > so that we can draw it to close.
So I'd like to know if there are places this PR weakens the requirement beyond what common practice is. Why is the unexpected message alert removed, for instance? Do we always want to permit just terminating as an option? > > Thanks, > > J&S > >> On Sep 05, 2016, at 14:02, Eric Rescorla <e...@rtfm.com> wrote: >> >> PR: https://github.com/tlswg/tls13-spec/pull/625 >> >> Currently the TLS spec requires implementations to send alerts under various >> fatal conditions. However, many stacks actually don't send alerts but instead >> just terminate the connection. Several people have argued that we should >> relax >> the requirement. >> >> At the September 2015 interim there was consensus to instead encourage >> sending alerts and require that if you send an alert, you send a specific >> one. >> I've finally gotten around to producing a PR that does this (link above). >> This >> PR: >> >> - Harmonizes all the language around alert sending (though perhaps I missed >> a couple of places) >> - Tries to make which alerts to send clearer in the alert descriptions to >> avoid >> having to specify individually how to handle every decision. >> - Relaxes the requirement as listed above. >> >> Note that these are to some extent orthogonal changes; even if we decide to >> continue mandating sending alerts, that should be listed in one location not >> scattered around the spec. >> >> I know that there wasn't universal consensus on relaxing the requirement to >> send, so I'll await WG discussion and the chairs decision on how to handle >> this PR. >> >> -Ekr >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TLS mailing list >> TLS@ietf.org >> https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/tls > > _______________________________________________ > TLS mailing list > TLS@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/tls -- "Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains". --Rousseau. _______________________________________________ TLS mailing list TLS@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/tls
