Re: AD Evaluation of draft-ietf-httpbis-tunnel-protocol-03

On 1 May 2015 at 11:14, Mike Bishop <Michael.Bishop@microsoft.com> wrote:
>>   The ALPN identifier and registry are used to identify a protocol, not
>>   a single protocol layer or component.
>
> This feels like the same issue from the other thread -- this phrasing makes it sound like you mean "protocol" to imply a stack/suite, "not a single protocol layer..."  So now we're not just overloading the ALPN registry, we're overloading the word protocol!

On the contrary, protocol layers != protocols.

> If it's TLS, this header copies the list from the ClientHello field; if it's not TLS, it contains the token that would be in ALPN if the client wanted to negotiate this protocol over TLS.

Except that if it was over TLS it would be a different thing entirely.

Received on Friday, 1 May 2015 18:27:01 UTC