Dear Christopher, On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 6:32 AM Christopher Wood <c...@heapingbits.net> wrote:
> Hi folks, > > As discussed in Singapore, it's time to re-charter the working group to > reflect ongoing (e.g., Exported Authenticators and Encrypted SNI/CH) and > future work (e.g., cTLS). For reference, the current charter is available > here: > > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/charter-ietf-tls/ > > A draft of the new charter is below, and also available on GitHub [1]. > Please have a look and and send comments, either here on the mailing list > or in the GitHub repo, by 2359 UTC on 30 January 2020. Any and all feedback > is welcome! We would like to complete this in advance of IETF 107 so we can > move forward with items such as cTLS. > > ~~~ > The TLS (Transport Layer Security) working group was established in 1996 > to standardize a 'transport layer' security protocol. The basis for the > work was SSL (Secure Socket Layer) v3.0 [RFC6101]. The TLS working group > has completed a series of specifications that describe the TLS protocol > v1.0 [RFC2246], v1.1 [RFC4346], v1.2 [RFC5346], and v1.3 [RFC8446], and > DTLS (Datagram TLS) v1.0 [RFC4347], v1.2 [RFC6347], and v1.3 > [draft-ietf-tls-dtls13], as well as extensions to the protocols and > ciphersuites. > > The working group aims to achieve three goals. First, improve the > applicability and suitability of the TLS family of protocols for use in > emerging protocols and use cases. This includes extensions or changes that > help protocols better use TLS as an authenticated key exchange protocol, or > extensions that help protocols better leverage TLS security properties, > such as Exported Authenticators. Extensions that focus specifically on > protocol extensibility are also in scope. This goal also includes protocol > changes that reduce the size of TLS without affecting security. Extensions > that help reduce TLS handshake size meet this criteria. > I think it's worth replacing "the size" with "the resource consumption" in the description of this goal. Otherwise, the tls-batch-signing draft ( https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-davidben-tls-batch-signing/) may be left out of the scope of the charter. -- SY, Dmitry Belyavsky
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