The QUIC and TLS drafts were written together, and are quite similar as you 
note. The intention is to use the TLS extension over TLS/TCP connections, and 
the QUIC extension for QUIC/UDP.

I agree that QUIC as a protocol benefits more from the extension than TLS does, 
but applications on top of both can benefit by detecting NATs, for making 
decisions about long-lived connections and privacy mitigations. 

Thanks,
Tommy

> On Mar 20, 2019, at 2:26 AM, Martin Thomson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I see a substantially similar draft in draft-pauly-quic-address-extension.  
> I'd like to understand how these might be complementary, or whether the idea 
> is to pursue only one.  The QUIC extension seems superior, if you have QUIC.  
> There are a lot more plausible reasons to want this information in QUIC 
> though.
> 
> Nits:
> 
> The format of the extension is not ideal.  Wouldn't you want to know which 
> family it came from?

I think the intention was to use the length to infer the family. 
> 
> The term of art is reflexive address (or reflected address).

Thanks, good to know!
> 
> _______________________________________________
> TLS mailing list
> [email protected]
> https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/tls

_______________________________________________
TLS mailing list
[email protected]
https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/tls

Reply via email to