The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Applying GREASE to TLS Extensibility' (draft-ietf-tls-grease-04.txt) as Informational RFC
This document is the product of the Transport Layer Security Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Benjamin Kaduk and Roman Danyliw. A URL of this Internet Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tls-grease/ Technical Summary The GREASE (Generate Random Extensions And Sustain Extensibility) mechanism is intended to prevent extensibility failures in the TLS ecosystem. This document reserves some currently unused values for TLS implementations to advertise at random. Correctly implemented peers will ignore these values and interoperate. Peers that do not tolerate unknown values will fail to interoperate, revealing the mistake before it is widespread. Working Group Summary The concept is well understood and was reviewed and adopted by the WG. But, there's not much to the draft so there was no controversy (thankfully). Document Quality This draft has successfully been implemented in Google Chrome, and is expected to be adopted by other actors with large deployment base and interest in sustaining the maintainability of the ecosystem. Personnel Sean Turner is the Document Shepherd. Benjamin Kaduk is the Responsible AD. _______________________________________________ TLS mailing list TLS@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/tls
