Stephen,

At 2016-12-13 22:40:09 +0000
Stephen Farrell <[email protected]> wrote:

> (With no hats...)
> 
> On 13/12/16 19:44, Christian Huitema wrote:
> > On Tuesday, December 13, 2016 11:16 AM, Paul Hoffman wrote:  
> >>
> >> If what we invent has better characteristics than DTLS or TLS, that 
> >> means that the TLS WG failed to find something that we could. That seems 
> >> *incredibly* unlikely, given the people active in the two WGs.  
> > 
> > Actually, QUIC might provide an answer, if you are willing to wait a couple
> > years.   
> 
> Yeah, I think QUIC might be good here. And maybe the 2 years
> isn't so bad either...
> 
> Given that a fallback to TCP/TLS is likely needed even if the
> right answer is QUIC, and given that however the WG decide to
> address server authentication and session management should
> work just as well for TCP/TLS as for QUIC... maybe the WG could
> experiment with TCP/TLS in the medium term with the longer
> term plan being to move to QUIC with TCP/TLS as the fallback
> whenever QUIC seems ready for primetime.
> 
> There're probably some flaws in the above, but it might be a
> plan.

This seems reasonable to me. It basically implies that we should insure
some small amount of agility in the encrypted channel, which seems like
a good idea anyway.

This approach is independent of the trust problem, which I think is
trickier, but it means we could in principle get working
implementations in the near/medium-term. :)

Cheers,

--
Shane

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