On 18 Mar 2025, at 11:53, Salz, Rich wrote:

>> So, again: This draft should either be expanded to say what TLS clients and 
>> servers and configuration SHOULD / MUST do with D-level components, or tell 
>> readers why it is not. Telling developers "go look at every doc that is 
>> liked from a D-level spec" is likely to cause them to not do so, and the 
>> result will be insecure implementations and lack of interoperability.
>
> I think it is good that the draft says “we discourage” and that’s good 
> enough. The whole point of saying discouraged is that it doesn’t rise to the 
> level of SHOULD NOT.

Ah! If that's what the TLS WG agrees on, it is a simple thing to add to the 
draft so that the reader understands the context of "discouraged".

--Paul Hoffman

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