Merged On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 12:50 PM, Sean Turner <s...@sn3rd.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the discussion. We’re going to ask ekr to merge this one > (obviously dealing with the additional input provided during the > discussion). > > J&S > > > On Sep 06, 2016, at 17:33, 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. > > > > 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 >
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