I'm also fine with removing the field and would welcome a PR to that effect.

Putting in a version to protect a DC from future cross-protocol attacks
that exploit TLS 1.3 smells a bit like over-engineering anyway.

Nick

On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 11:54 PM Subodh Iyengar <[email protected]> wrote:

> I don't feel too strongly about the tls version binding and I'd be fine
> with removing it to favor operational simplification.
>
>
> Subodh
> ------------------------------
> *From:* TLS <[email protected]> on behalf of Martin Thomson <
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> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 15, 2019 7:39:44 PM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* Re: [TLS] Version pinning and indicating the signing algorithm
> in draft-ietf-tls-subcerts-02
>
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2019, at 13:35, Subodh Iyengar wrote:
> > Usually the negotiation happens during the processing of the client
> hello.
>
> I don't think that the problem here is a code problem.  It's an
> operational one.
>
> In many ways, the decision to use TLS 1.3 over TLS 1.2 is one that can be
> made in isolation.  You decide to flip the switch and flip it.  But if you
> are doing delegated credentials, deploying a new version depends on having
> a fallback in place for that version, or getting the vendor of delegated
> credentials to start supplying new credentials.  And that assumes that all
> the necessary stores are keyed correctly (though this highlights the case
> where that might not happen), and the code has been written.  It's not that
> it's impossible, but more that it complicates what was previously
> uncomplicated.
>
> As you say, the decision to use a delegated credential is fairly simple.
>
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