On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 10:24 AM Eric Rescorla <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 9:56 AM Rob Sayre <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 7:58 AM Eric Rescorla <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>> On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 2:43 PM Rob Sayre <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>>> On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 12:27 PM Kaduk, Ben <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> The one concrete one that I remember (and can't attribute to the
>>>>> HTMLized version dropping stuff) is RFC 7030 only in the header.
>>>>>
>>>>> I guess we can check what we want to do to DTLS as well, as RFC 6347
>>>>> is listed as Updates:-ed but that's the DTLS 1.2 spec.  (6347 itself
>>>>> confusingly claims in the body text to "update DTLS 1.0 to work with TLS
>>>>> 1.2" but has an "Obsoletes: 4347" header.)  I don't see what specifically
>>>>> we update in 6347.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  I think the text in question is the last paragraph of RFC 6347's
>>>> Introduction:
>>>>
>>>> "Implementations that speak both DTLS 1.2 and DTLS 1.0 can
>>>>    interoperate with those that speak only DTLS 1.0 (using DTLS 1.0 of
>>>>    course), just as TLS 1.2 implementations can interoperate with
>>>>    previous versions of TLS (see Appendix E.1 of [TLS12] for details),
>>>>    with the exception that there is no DTLS version of SSLv2 or SSLv3,
>>>>    so backward compatibility issues for those protocols do not apply."
>>>>
>>>> This draft says "don't interoperate" in this situation.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I don't typically get too exercised about what appears in these metadata
>>> headers, but I don't actually think this updates 6347. The statement there
>>> is still true, we just tell you not to do it.
>>>
>>
>> Well... I think the clearest definition of "updates" is in RFC 2223:
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>> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2223#section-12
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>> "... e.g., an addendum, or separate, extra information that is to be
>> added to the original document."
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> Yes, and I don't think that this does that.
>

OK. I agree with what you wrote: "The statement there is still true, we
just tell you not to do it."

That seems like new information a reader of RFC 6347 should be made aware
of.

thanks,
Rob
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