Stephane,

At 2016-12-14 10:46:16 +0100
Stephane Bortzmeyer <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 10:21:13AM +0100,
>  Shane Kerr <[email protected]> wrote 
>  a message of 90 lines which said:
> 
> > > 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.  
> ...
> > 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.  
> 
> I smell practical and programming issues there. Soon,we will have four
> ways for a DNS client to talk to a name server, UDP, TCP, TLS+TCP,
> DTLS+UDP, and no guidance on how to combine them, in which order to do
> so (think of the "happy eyeballs" problem), what to do if some
> fail... Adding a fifth, QUIC+TLS, won't help. What will the poor
> client be supposed to do?

I agree this is a pain.

If only there was a way to publish information about a server's
preferences....

Cheers,

--
Shane

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