> What’s the rush on disabling these?

You may indeed be right.
At least, I think there may be no need to rush to apply the change
to 8152bis (Maybe that's impossible in the first place though).

Maybe we should discuss this more. I would be happy if you would consider
this matter as the next step after 8152bis.

Regards,
Daisuke

2021年8月8日(日) 20:48 Carsten Bormann <[email protected]>:

> This discussion is all a bit short sighted to me. Sure, we can advise
> against registering text labels now. But COSE has a long life with many
> applications before it, some of which may be outside what you are thinking
> about now. What’s the rush on disabling these?
>
> Sent from mobile, sorry for terse
>
> On 8. Aug 2021, at 10:15, AJITOMI Daisuke <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 
> > We can deprecate tstr as key.
> > We can say that no signer MUST NEVER emit this again.
> > We can say that a verifier MAY accept tstr as a key.
>
> This sounds reasonable to me.
>
> Since any tstr labels are not registered in the IANA registry for now and
> there are no implementations that support the tstr labels as far as I know,
>
> I think there is room to make the tstr labels deprecated.
>
> Thanks,
> Daisuke
>
> 2021年8月8日(日) 8:22 Michael Richardson <[email protected]>:
>
>>
>> Laurence Lundblade <[email protected]> wrote:
>>     > I don’t think tstr can be removed from the standard. That would
>> break
>>     > backwards compatibility. Maybe a strong recommendation could be
>> added
>>     > with the comment that many implementations don’t support tstr.
>>
>> Any system built upon COSE that does not support tstr as a key is already
>> broken if many implementations don't support it.
>>
>> We can deprecate tstr as key.
>> We can say that no signer MUST NEVER emit this again.
>> We can say that a verifier MAY accept tstr as a key.
>>
>>     > There is a revision of 8152 in process right now called 8152bis.
>> That
>>     > seems like the place to do it.
>>
>> It is pretty late to do this.  8152bis is in AUTH48, we need the
>> proxy-author
>> and WG chairs to agree to this immediately.
>>
>> I agree that having two ways things is not a good thing.
>>
>> --
>> Michael Richardson <[email protected]>   . o O ( IPv6 IøT consulting
>> )
>>            Sandelman Software Works Inc, Ottawa and Worldwide
>>
>
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