+1

At 04:28 14/03/2017  Tuesday, Roland Shoemaker wrote:
>I'd argue that removing the challenge version numbers adds unnecessary
>complexity to the specification and any existing implementations going
>forward.
>
>Existing servers and clients will need to have some kind of mapping from
>the draft names to the final un-versioned names and any protocol
>revisions going forward will need to know about both the versioned and
>un-versioned names so that they don't name a new version of a challenge
>using one of the draft version numbers, leading to existing
>implementations thinking an older version is actually being used.
>
>I agree dropping the version numbers is somewhat more aesthetically
>pleasing but I can't really see any actual technical reasons to do so,
>while keeping them seems like it'd save a lot of headaches down the road.
>
>On 03/13/2017 11:56 AM, Richard Barnes wrote:
>> I would prefer we stick with dropping the version number, just because
>> it's cleaner and the future is bigger than the past.  
>> 
>> 
>> On Mar 13, 2017 2:27 PM, "Jacob Hoffman-Andrews" <[email protected]
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>>     Roland posted a PR tweaking the challenge names for the final RFC:
>>     https://github.com/ietf-wg-acme/acme/pull/272
>>     <https://github.com/ietf-wg-acme/acme/pull/272>.
>> 
>>     This raised the question: What do we want the challenge names to be in
>>     the final RFC? I think we've been assuming that "http-01" would become
>>     "http" once the RFC is published. However, this does create a slightly
>>     deployment headache, in that draft-compatible implementations have to
>>     use one name, and RFC-compatible implementations have to use another, so
>>     it's hard to test working code with the final names before the RFC is
>>     really finalized.
>> 
>>     I don't have a strong opinion on this one way or another. What do folks
>>     on this list think?
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