Hi Ryan, On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 12:25:10PM +0900, Ryan Sleevi wrote: > On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 3:19 PM Melinda Shore <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > On 7/26/18 5:50 AM, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 11:31:13AM +0000, Robin Wilton wrote: > > >> Isn’t there a case, here, for asking the tictoc WG for advice about > > >> a canonical reference or chunk of text that could be used? > > > Seems likely. Are the chairs interested in making such a request? > > > > Sure, although I'd like to hear from the authors and/or > > from implementers, first. My understanding is that that > > piece of data is used to provide a sanity check (i.e. an > > STH cannot have a timestamp earlier than that of any SCT > > in the tree) and it seems to me that the level of rigor > > being expected of the timestamp should probably align > > with its actual application. So, let's make sure we agree > > on what we're asking for before making a request. > > > > Melinda > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Trans mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/trans > > > > <https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/trans> > > Just to make sure: We’re talking about the feedback on > https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/trans/current/msg03155.html , correct? > > I’m having trouble squaring that feedback with what’s being discussed here, > since it wasn’t a question about the rigor of a globally consistent time, > but rather a question about the encoding and wire format being left > ambiguously unclear. That is, this is about format and not semantics, and > proposed text to try to disambiguate a little more was included.
Thanks for pulling up the primary source; I was just going on the chairs' summary of the issues and apparently only noticed an unrelated potential issue. Clarifying that the 64-bit timestamp format (with callout to Sectino 6 of RFC 5905) is the correct one sounds like a fine thing to do. -Ben _______________________________________________ Trans mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/trans
