Re: WG Last Call: draft-ietf-sasl-scram-02

[Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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On 7/28/09 1:09 PM, Alexey Melnikov wrote:
> 
> Simon Josefsson wrote:
> 
>> Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>  
>>
>>> Simon Josefsson wrote:
>>>   
>>>> Regarding
>>>>
>>>>  [tls-unique]
>>>>             Zhu, L., "Registration of TLS unique channel binding
>>>>             (generic)", IANA http://www.iana.org/assignments/
>>>>             channel-binding-types/tls-unique, July 2008.
>>>>
>>>> I think we should replace that with a reference to
>>>>
>>>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-altman-tls-channel-bindings-05
>>>>     
>>> This would mean a new normative reference and would delay publication
>>> of both documents.
>>> While I think it would be nice to use this reference, I am against
>>> blocking SCRAM and GS2 on this.
>>>   
>> OK, I'm fine with that -- it will mean a downref (right?), and I assumed
>> those causes other sorts of problems that could be avoided.
>>  
>>
> I am not entirely sure if it is. But I don't think it will be
> problematic with IESG, even if it.

I must say that point to the IANA registration as the definitive
reference for tls-unique confused me, since it is not a specification.
If we could somehow include a reference to the I-D, I think that we
could avoid confusing some implementers.

Peter

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