Richard, I am wondering whether it wouldn't make more sense to let the chairs judge the consensus call and to propose the next steps. They asked the question and I am sure they had a specific reason to frame the questions in that particular way.
Ciao Hannes On Feb 9, 2013, at 1:11 AM, Richard Barnes wrote: > We're 24 votes into the header criticality poll, so I thought I would go > ahead and take a look at how the results are shaping up. My initial > tabulation is below. The result on the FIRST POLL (the main one) is as > follows: > > No: 10 > Yes: 14 > > What I find striking, however, is that every single person that voted "Yes" > on the FIRST POLL also voted "Yes" on the SECOND POLL. So nobody who thinks > that all headers should be critical thinks that a JOSE library should > actually be required to enforce this constraint. And that means that > enforcing that all headers are supported cannot be a MUST according to RFC > 2119. > > So I wonder if there's consensus to remove the following text from JWE and > JWS: > -----BEGIN-JWE----- > 4. The resulting JWE Header MUST be validated to only include > parameters and values whose syntax and semantics are both > understood and supported. > -----END-JWE----- > -----BEGIN-JWS----- > 4. The resulting JWS Header MUST be validated to only include > parameters and values whose syntax and semantics are both > understood and supported. > -----END-JWS----- > > Otherewise, a JOSE library conforming to these specifications would be > REQUIRED (a synonym to MUST in 2119) to reject a JWE/JWS that contains an > unknown header, contradicting all those "Yes" votes on the SECOND POLL. > > --Richard > > > > -----BEGIN-Tabulation----- > 1 2 3 Name: > N - - Bradley > N - - Ito > N N A Yee > N N B Barnes > N N B Rescorla > N N C Manger > N N C Octman > N Y A Fletcher > N Y A Miller > N Y A Sakimura > Y Y - D'Agostino > Y Y A Biering > Y Y A Brault > Y Y A Hedberg > Y Y A Jay > Y Y A Jones > Y Y A Marais > Y Y A Nadalin > Y Y A Nara > Y Y A Nennker > Y Y A Solberg > Y Y B Hardt > Y Y B Medeiros > Y Y C Matake > Y Y C Mishra > -----END-Tabulation----- > _______________________________________________ > jose mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/jose _______________________________________________ jose mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/jose
