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

[Bodo Moeller <bmoeller@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 12:00:03PM +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote:

> However, as a general issue, it seems unfortunate that ciphersuite
> numbers are tightly connected to the IETF standards track category.
> If I recall correctly, successful documents on the Experimental track
> may later be revised into Proposed Standards.  Will the ciphersuite
> numbers then change?

Having separate ranges reserved for Standards Track assignments and
reserved for non-Standards Track ciphersuite assignments is meant to
prevent non-Standards Track documents from using up too much of the
total ciphersuite space.  So, unless there are incompatible changes to
the ciphersuite, there is no need to renumber if a ciphersuite
progresses from Experimental Track to Standards Track.  After all, the
Standards Track specification won't need to use cipher suite values
that are merely reserved: instead, it can continue to use the cipher
suite values that have already been assigned.


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