On Mon, May 09, 2022 at 06:10:43PM +0300, Yoav Nir wrote:
> 
> 
> > On 14 Apr 2022, at 1:51, Benjamin Kaduk 
> > <bkaduk=40akamai....@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 10:56:49AM -0700, Eric Rescorla wrote:
> >> Consider the case where the client wants to offer some capability that
> >> the server then responds to with real data, rather than just an
> >> acknowledgement.
> >> 
> >> For instance, supposing the SCT extension from RFC 6962 did not exist,
> >> the client would want to indicate support in CH and the server would
> >> send the SCT in CERT, but this extension would need to be non-empty
> >> and hence not a flag. draft-ietf-tls-tlsflags-09 seems a bit
> >> uncelar on this point (unless I'm missing it) but I think we
> >> should explicitly allow it.
> > 
> > In my head this was already disallowed.  I couldn't swear to whether
> > we actually talked about it previously or not, though.
> 
> I’m pretty sure we haven’t discussed this (or at least, I wasn’t in the 
> room).  In my head it’s also disallowed.  In the text, it’s not explicitly 
> disallowed, but the text does talk about response flags that are in flag 
> extensions, not about responses that are in other extensions or other 
> messages.  So implicitly disallowed?

I think the description in the abstract of the target class of extension as
those "that carry no interesting information except the 1-bit indication that a
certain optional feature is supported" also implicitly disallows response
bodies.

-Ben

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