OK, but it seems to me you've exchanged two lists for one list with a bunch
of flags. Not sure why this is in any way an improvement?

On 6 April 2017 at 14:51, Eran Messeri <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 2:48 PM, Ben Laurie <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 6 April 2017 at 14:12, Rob Stradling <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> On 06/04/17 13:27, Eran Messeri wrote:
>>>
>>>> I intend to adopt Richard's suggestion of merging the extension types
>>>> for SCTs and STHs.
>>>>
>>>> Currently there doesn't seem to be a good reason to separate the two -
>>>> since the extensions are typed, it'd be easy to differentiate between
>>>> the two, and there may be extensions which are shared between SCTs and
>>>> STHs.
>>>>
>>>> This has been reviewed
>>>> in https://github.com/google/certificate-transparency-rfcs/pull/224,
>>>> rationale updated in https://trac.ietf.org/trac/trans/ticket/173.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I support this too.
>>>
>>> Note: I just did some editorial follow-up work in
>>> https://github.com/google/certificate-transparency-rfcs/pull/244
>>
>>
>> Really? I am confused by this plan - surely the extensions for STHs and
>> SCTs will be different? So what's the value of allowing the wrong ones to
>> be included?
>>
> We don't know yet, as no extension has been defined - but for each
> extension, it must be specified whether it should go in the SCT, STH or
> both.
> So we'd simply have a single extensions repository, rather than two.
>
>
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