> On Mar 12, 2018, at 19:58, Adam Roach <a...@nostrum.com> wrote:
> 
> On 3/7/18 12:58 PM, Eric Rescorla wrote:
>> > >  -  TLS SignatureScheme Registry: Values with the first byte in the
>> > >     range 0-253 (decimal) are assigned via Specification Required
>> > >     [RFC8126].  Values with the first byte 254 or 255 (decimal) are
>> > >     reserved for Private Use [RFC8126].  Values with the first byte in
>> > >     the range 0-6 or with the second byte in the range 0-3 that are
>> > >     not currently allocated are reserved for backwards compatibility.
>> >
>> > Unless I misunderstand the compatibility mechanisms here, the reservation 
>> > of
>> > first byte=0-6 seems to assume that no further assignments will be made 
>> > from
>> > the "TLS HashAlgorithm Registry" (after 4492bis lands). If this is the 
>> > case, I
>> > would expect the IANA considerations section to include a request that the 
>> > IANA
>> > close the table to further registrations. The same comment applies to TLS
>> > SignatureAlgorithm Registry.
>> 
>> Agreed, but I'd like to hear from the chairs.
> 
> 
> I think we're still waiting to hear from the chairs on this topic.
> 
> /a

I think this got lost somewhere in the flurry of emails:

See s17 of 
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tls-iana-registry-updates/
We don’t close the registry because technically, if somebody really, really 
wanted to they could register values for earlier versions.

spt
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