Hi Chris,

> On 14 Mar 2016, at 22:34, Chris Newman <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Has the security area produced any published text describing the general 
> benefits of implicit vs. STARTTLS? I can’t exactly reference a discussion on 
> IETF/crypto-protocol-security.

I'm not aware of any, unfortunately. I've only seen drafts and mailing list 
discussion in the past.

> 
> There is existing text in the main document (as opposed to the non-normative 
> appendix) that favors implicit TLS. If that’s not good enough, can you 
> suggest wording improvements?

Yes, you are right. Reading over the document again I noticed it's explicitly 
mentioned already in the Introduction of the draft.

Aaron

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