If we want a new name, then I propose kex_hint — keyshare is a DH concept.
I'm happy with all proposals so far though — we have been bad at naming,
but fortunately consistently so.

On Wed, Sep 25, 2024 at 7:06 PM Andrei Popov <Andrei.Popov=
40microsoft....@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote:

> I think it's more important to keep consistent naming between TLS and DNS
> than to come up with some perfect terminology for this concept.
> Publishing the full list of groups supported by the server also appears to
> be more useful: any partial list is but a partial solution to the problem.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andrei
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Farrell <stephen.farr...@cs.tcd.ie>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2024 9:30 AM
> To: David Benjamin <david...@chromium.org>
> Cc: TLS List <tls@ietf.org>
> Subject: [EXTERNAL] [TLS] Re: Consensus Call: early code point request for
> draft-ietf-tls-key-share-prediction
>
>
> Two quick bits...
>
> On 9/25/24 16:59, David Benjamin wrote:
>
> > If you publish L1+oddballs for all routes to T1 and the client then
> > predicts oddballs to S1, *this is not a failure*.
>
> Yeah, I was imprecise again:-) Yes HRR will kick in, but I think that
> scenario highlights a failure for this spec to help.
>
> That said...
>
> >> In that case ISTM the right thing is to publish L1 for T1 and
> >> L1+oddballs
> > for T2.
> >
> > That would *also* suboptimal for T1. Suppose the client supports
> > oddballs, saw L1, and predicted something in L1. Then they connect to
> > S2 but actually
> > S2 really wants oddballs when the client supports it. Then S2 will HRR.
>
> With s/would/could/ that's a fair point, though I don't think we're trying
> to represent that "really wants...when"
> via this spec, so one could argue that's out of scope.
>
> Anyway, I reckon I've made my point, if others agree they'll chime in, if
> not, I assume we'll stick with the current presentation syntax, maybe with
> a bit more clarification, and the DEs will like that or not.
>
> Cheers,
> S.
>
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