RE: [TLS] WGLC: draft-ietf-tls-srp-13

[Peter Williams <home_pw@xxxxxxx>]

Experimental is simply a formal definition. You do anything you like. No need to register the 
(local) experimental values with IANA. By definition, an experiment is local to its community.

One simply defines a ciphersuite in the local class (used by all instances and all vendors
in the self-defining experimental community). That value is properly contextualized by the TLS 
application, in engineer terms. yes, it may change later upon registration; but how hard is that 
to do, these days!?

I just reasoned the need to define my community a new naming type, in the TLS extensions for 
server name indication - mainly so I dont "abuse" host_name. I dont need to ask or register! Ideally, 
the std could  have reserved a "local" class of identified indication types; but, it didn't. Perhaps it 
will improve, later like TLS did for ciphersuites (improving upon SSL here!) assuming the politics 
is not attempting to restrict the name forms, the classes of indication, or limit applicability of the 
construct to IP bearers.

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> Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 18:13:13 +0100
> From: Peter.Sylvester@xxxxxxxxxx
> To: ekr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [TLS] WGLC: draft-ietf-tls-srp-13
> CC: tls@xxxxxxxx
> 
> Do ciphersuites in the experimental range mean that they could be
> reused by any other experimental protocol, or does IANA reserve values?
> 
>

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