> On Jun 3, 2025, at 08:57, Mahesh Jethanandani via Datatracker > <nore...@ietf.org> wrote: > > Mahesh Jethanandani has entered the following ballot position for > draft-ietf-tls-rfc8447bis-13: No Objection > > When responding, please keep the subject line intact and reply to all > email addresses included in the To and CC lines. (Feel free to cut this > introductory paragraph, however.) > > > Please refer to > https://www.ietf.org/about/groups/iesg/statements/handling-ballot-positions/ > for more information about how to handle DISCUSS and COMMENT positions. > > > The document, along with other ballot positions, can be found here: > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tls-rfc8447bis/ > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > COMMENT: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> D: Indicates that the item is discouraged. This marking could be >> used to identify mechanisms that might result in problems if they >> are used, such as a weak cryptographic algorithm or a mechanism >> that might cause interoperability problems in deployment. When >> marking a registry entry as “D”, either the References or the >> Comments Column MUST include sufficient information to determine >> why the marking has been applied. Implementers and users SHOULD >> consult the linked references associated with the item to >> determine the conditions under which the item SHOULD NOT or MUST >> NOT be used. > > First of all thanks to Barry Leiba for his ARTART review. I had a follow-up > comment to what he brought up and has to do with the last sentence of the > above > paragraph. The fact that the document says "SHOULD NOT or MUST NOT" and not > just "MUST NOT" makes me think there might be conditions under which the item > may be used. > > I would have therefore thought the linked reference might, in addition, > describe under what circumstances an item marked D might be used. If there are > none, why not just a "MUST NOT”?
Because this is marking that will be used for registry entries now and those that come in the future, which we don’t know about. spt _______________________________________________ TLS mailing list -- tls@ietf.org To unsubscribe send an email to tls-le...@ietf.org
