Closing the loop here, we've merged the PR linked in the OP.

>From some discussion (on list and in person) there might be folks
interested in exploring log retrieval but its not clear if a .well-known is
even the right approach, and there are privacy / security consideration
that should be captured if someone(s) want to write up something(s).

Cheers
Lucas

On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 11:48 PM Martin Thomson <[email protected]> wrote:

> The fewer .well-known usages, the better as far as I'm concerned.  I won't
> be sad to see it go.
>
> On Wed, Jul 5, 2023, at 16:02, Lucas Pardue wrote:
> > Hello QUIC WG,
> >
> > <Speaking as an editor on the qlog drafts>
> >
> > The qlog main schema has for a while included a definition about how to
> > retrieve qlogs from a server by accessing a URI that uses a
> > .well-known; see Section 7.2 of draft-ietf-quic-qlog-main-schema  [1].
> > While this type of thing was considered useful during earlier periods
> > of QUIC interop, research or debugging, it was recommended that
> > production servers not support this access method due to various
> > security and privacy reasons.
> >
> > The editors are not aware of this .well-known method being used in
> > actuality. Sharing of qlogs for a range of purposes can be done pretty
> > trivially using alternative out-of-band or custom means. Standardizing
> > the .well-known method would require adding a lot more meat to the
> > bones of its definition, which is work that the editors do not think is
> > worth the effort or possible delay it could impose. Our proposal is to
> > drop this from the spec for now, and let it be picked up in future
> > (perhaps even in a different WG) if people want it. Robin notes that
> > Brian Trammel proposed something along these lines a while back but we
> > don't seem to have tracked it anywhere. So to avoid that again I've
> > created an issue [2] and PR [3].
> >
> > We think this is an uncontroversial move. However, please speak now if
> > you feel strongly about keeping this in the draft, or are interested in
> > pursue .well-known as a separate item.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Lucas
> >
> > [1] -
> >
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-quic-qlog-main-schema#section-7.2
> > [2] - https://github.com/quicwg/qlog/issues/313
> > [3] - https://github.com/quicwg/qlog/issues/315
>

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