On Friday, 2 September 2016 12:06:55 CEST Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
> On 09/02/2016 12:04 PM, Eric Rescorla wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 8:25 AM, Dave Garrett <[email protected]
> > 
> > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >     On Friday, September 02, 2016 07:32:06 am Eric Rescorla wrote:
> >     > On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 3:42 AM, Ilari Liusvaara
> >     
> >     <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >     > > I also don't see why this should be in TLS 1.3 spec, instead of
> >     > > being
> >     > > its own spec (I looked up how much process BS it would be to
> >     
> >     get the
> >     
> >     > > needed registrations: informative RFC would do).
> >     > 
> >     > I also am not following why we need to do this now. The reason
> >     
> >     we defined SHA-2 in
> >     
> >     > a new RFC was because (a) SHA-1 was looking weak and (b) we had
> >     
> >     to make significant
> >     
> >     > changes to TLS to allow the use of SHA-2. This does not seem to
> >     
> >     be that case.
> >     
> >     I don't think we strictly _need_ to do this now, however I think
> >     it's a good idea given that we'll need to do it eventually
> > 
> > I'm not sure that that's true.
> 
> Predicting future needs is not always reliable, yes.
> 
> >From a release-engineering (standards-engineering?) perspective, I still
> 
> don't see any reasons to add it now, and do see reasons to not add it now.

what would be the reasons not to add it now?

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