On Friday, 4 May 2018 21:54:03 CEST Sean Turner wrote:
> The open issue in draft-ietf-tls-iana-registry-updates is whether we should
> close the registries or simply reserve the remaining values.  I’ve
> submitted the following PR to simply reserve the values and point to the
> SignatureScheme registry for 1.3 values:
> https://github.com/tlswg/draft-ietf-tls-iana-registry-updates/pull/75 I did
> this because a) closing a registry is really just symbolic; a draft (or the
> IESG) can later reopen the registry, and 
every IETF protocol is just symbolic, there is no IETF police ;)

> b) At least person has indicated
> they might want code points for a TLS1.2 implementation. 

then they can ask for SignatureScheme codepoints that follow the TLS 1.2 usage 
patterns, but even in TLS 1.2 you couldn't ask for ecdsa+md5, so the separate 
registries weren't a reflection of reality anyway


either way, I don't feel strongly about it, it's mostly a semantic difference

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Hubert Kario
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