I usually hate receiving responses like this one, but they're
nonetheless true:
The great StartTLS vs special-socket debate was over something like
10 years ago - possibly more, actually. Even in protocols which don't
offer the server id negotiation prior to TLS, as in XMPP, there are
other benefits, and these are, IIRC, documented in RFC 2595.
Reopening this debate is going to frustrate you, and annoy other
people.
There is an advantage to socket based TLS, however, which is usually
overlooked - it's fewer round-trips. We'll hopefully address this in
due course on standards@, though.
Dave.
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