I too am confused about this poll, since it seemed clear in Prague that we
had
consensus to provisionally move forward with both.

With that said, I prefer (a) draft-rescorla-tcpinc-tls-option-03, for the
reasons I
laid out previously: I believe it's a simple and direct application of TLS
to this
use case and that's better than having an entirely distinct protocol. It's
also
valuable to have a design which is a good fit for out-of-band negotiation
of application-layer TLS.

However, as I said in the meeting, I can live with the proposal to
provisionally
adopt both drafts and decide in November.

-Ekr


On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 8:11 AM, Martin Thomson <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I think that Cullen said everything I intended to. See also Mark Twain
> when it comes to eggs and baskets.
>
> And then there is the part where I express confusion about this poll. The
> working group seemed to have consensus on something else.
> On Jul 31, 2015 2:58 AM, "Cullen Jennings" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> I prefer for the WG to select draft a)
>> draft-rescorla-tcpinc-tls-option-03 as the starting point.
>>
>> The track record of security bugs in developing a new security protocol
>> result in me having a strong preference for using something where lots of
>> people have spent a lot of time looking at the algorithms. I think using
>> TLS as a starting point will results in less problems than something new.
>>
>> It's been a long time since I wrote kernel code but I did the original
>> code for the wireless networking in the Linux kernel. I don't buy the
>> argument that one can not write TLS in the kernel. Many embedded systems
>> (such as Cisco phones) already do TLS in the kernel.  Some of the ways that
>> people do SSL based VPNs (like AnyConnect) also ends up with TLS in the
>> kernel.
>>
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