Is the old code point defined somewhere? Would it be possible to add such a
definition to one of the I-Ds? Or is this something that's not
traditionally defined in IETF drafts?

On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 4:03 PM Victor Tan <victor...@chromium.org> wrote:

> Currently, It's on the code:
> https://boringssl.googlesource.com/boringssl/+/master/include/openssl/tls1.h?pli=1#247
> Once we standardize the ALPS RFC draft, we can finalize the value.  Hope
> this helps.
>
> On Saturday, January 20, 2024 at 7:50:46 PM UTC-5 Chris Harrelson wrote:
>
>> Thanks for clarifying. Last question: where in the specifications is the
>> new 17613 code point documented?
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 19, 2024 at 12:59 PM Mike Taylor <miketa...@chromium.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> In our OWNERS meeting this week, there was some confusion on what's
>>> being proposed here (which is understandable, this isn't quite a typical
>>> intent for web exposed feature). Here's a summary of what we're trying to
>>> accomplish:
>>>
>>> 1) We shipped support for the ACCEPT_CH frame over h2 and h3 back in
>>> M96, which relies on the TLS ALPS protocol extension.
>>> 2) There are 2 parts to this: the client being able to understand
>>> ALPS/ACCEPT_CH (and in return do something useful), and the server being
>>> able to send it.
>>> 3) Because of a (long fixed) bug present in Chromium's implementation,
>>> it's risky for a server to send too much data via ACCEPT_CH, so it's
>>> usefulness is potentially limited.
>>> 4) In order to guarantee that older clients don't have this bug, we
>>> propose to rev the version (aka, code point) at the protocol layer. This
>>> way, if a server sends the new code point and the client understands it, it
>>> can send a larger payload without triggering the bug (which may result in
>>> sad things like a connection being refused).
>>> 5) This is sort of web observable, but right now if servers that support
>>> the old code point continue to send the old code point - nothing will
>>> break. Chromium will support both for now, with hopes to deprecate and
>>> remove the older one in the future when we're confident it won't result in
>>> performance regressions for servers sending ACCEPT_CH (since this is a
>>> performance optimization).
>>>
>>> I hope that helps clear it up, and I'm sure Victor or David will chime
>>> in if I'm getting something wrong. :)
>>>
>>> And to be clear - this isn't a request for a deprecation or removal
>>> (yet), but for shipping the new code point.
>>> On 1/17/24 11:16 AM, Victor Tan wrote:
>>>
>>> If the server received the new code point, while it doesn't support, the
>>> ALPS extension will ignore. This also mean client might not know the
>>> server's client hints preferences before the first request. Currently, only
>>> few sites using the ALPS extension.  As TLS extension is negotiated, the
>>> server need to support both code points during the transition period, after
>>> some time, the server can drop the old one.
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, January 17, 2024 at 11:00:13 AM UTC-5 Yoav Weiss wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Saturday, January 13, 2024 at 12:08:33 AM UTC+1 Victor Tan wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Contact emails
>>>>
>>>> victor...@chromium.org, miketa...@chromium.org, david...@chromium.org
>>>>
>>>> Explainer
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/WICG/client-hints-infrastructure/
>>>> blob/main/reliability.md
>>>>
>>>> Specification
>>>>
>>>> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-davidben-http-client-hint-reliability
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-vvv-httpbis-alps
>>>>
>>>> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-vvv-tls-alps
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Summary
>>>>
>>>> Shipping a new code point (17613) for TLS ALPS extension to allow
>>>> adding more data in the ACCEPT_CH HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 frame. The ACCEPT_CH
>>>> HTTP/2 frame with the existing TLS ALPS extension code point (17513) had an
>>>> arithmetic overflow bug <https://crbug.com/1292069> in the Chrome ALPS
>>>> decoder. It limits the capability to add more than 128 bytes data (in
>>>> theory, the problem range is 128 bytes to 255 bytes) to the ACCEPT_CH
>>>> frame. With the new ALPS code point, we can fully mitigate the issue.
>>>>
>>>> Blink component
>>>>
>>>> Blink>Network>ClientHints
>>>> <https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/list?q=component%3ABlink%3ENetwork%3EClientHints%2C&can=2>
>>>>
>>>> TAG review
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/w3ctag/design-reviews/issues/549
>>>>
>>>> TAG review status
>>>>
>>>> Closed
>>>>
>>>> Risks
>>>> Interoperability and Compatibility
>>>>
>>>> This is switching to a new code point for the TLS ALPS extension. It
>>>> won’t change the design of ALPS and ACCEPT_CH mechanism implementation.
>>>> The main source of compatibility risk is that it causes conflicts with ALPS
>>>> negotiation since some clients could still use the old code point while
>>>> others are switching to use the new code point.  The ALPS extension could
>>>> be ignored if the code point doesn’t match during negotiation, which means
>>>> the server's client hints preferences won’t be delivered in the ACCEPT_CH
>>>> HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 frame.  We mitigate this by enabling servers to support
>>>> both code points, monitoring both code points usage and removing the old
>>>> ALPS code point support in a future intent once the usage is low enough. We
>>>> also split the rollout into two phases: we first start to enable the new
>>>> ALPS code point for ACCEPT_CH  with HTTP/3 frame in a slow rollout, and
>>>> then eventually enable the new code point with HTTP/2 frame.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Does the server have an indication if the client in question supports
>>>> the newer code point?
>>>> If not, what would we expect servers that support the newer code point
>>>> to do?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Edge: No signals
>>>>
>>>> Firefox: Pending https://github.com/mozilla/
>>>> standards-positions/issues/510
>>>> Safari: Pending https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2021-
>>>> April/031768.html
>>>>
>>>> Web/Framework developers: https://twitter.com/Sawtaytoes/status/
>>>> 1369031447940526080 https://twitter.com/_jayphelps/status/
>>>> 1369023028735148032
>>>>
>>>> Activation
>>>>
>>>> The site’s TLS and HTTP serving application would need to be updated to
>>>> support this new code point. We aren’t aware of many sites using this
>>>> feature yet, however.
>>>>
>>>> Debuggability
>>>>
>>>> No special DevTools support needed. The effects of the code point
>>>> change of ACCEPT_CH frame will be visible in the DevTools’ network tab.
>>>> Also, the NetLog will record the ACCEPT_CH frame value if TLS ALPS
>>>> extension is negotiated successfully.
>>>>
>>>> Will this feature be supported on all six Blink platforms (Windows,
>>>> Mac, Linux, Chrome OS, Android, and Android WebView)?
>>>>
>>>> Yes
>>>>
>>>> Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests
>>>> <https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs/testing/web_platform_tests.md>
>>>> ?
>>>>
>>>> No, this feature is tested with browser-side tests. We can’t test
>>>> TLS-adjacent features currently through web-platform-tests. See this issue:
>>>> https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt/issues/20159
>>>>
>>>> Flag name
>>>>
>>>> UseNewAlpsCodepointHttp2
>>>>
>>>> UseNewAlpsCodepointQUIC
>>>>
>>>> Tracking bug
>>>>
>>>> b/289087287
>>>>
>>>> Launch bug
>>>>
>>>> https://launch.corp.google.com/launch/4299022
>>>>
>>>> Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status
>>>> https://chromestatus.com/feature/5149147365900288
>>>>
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