Hi Sean, > On Jun 4, 2025, at 9:14 AM, Sean Turner <s...@sn3rd.com> wrote: > > > >> 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.
Is there guidance on circumstances under which an item that is marked D may be used? > > spt > > > Mahesh Jethanandani mjethanand...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ TLS mailing list -- tls@ietf.org To unsubscribe send an email to tls-le...@ietf.org
