Re: Working Group Last Call for draft-ietf-httpbis-tunnel-protocol from Martin Thomson on 2015-03-30 (ietf-http-wg@w3.org from January to March 2015)

From: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2015 20:54:16 -0700
To: Adrien de Croy <adrien@qbik.com>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>, Amos Jeffries <squid3@treenet.co.nz>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CABkgnnUH+PatWrHVmFKp5Og8aNKrFByLTdy+GO28qUm+ciT1-g@mail.gmail.com>

On 29 March 2015 at 20:12, Adrien de Croy <adrien@qbik.com> wrote:
>
> I think renaming to ALPN addresses a couple of issues, but still not the one
> about whether it's being used for a TLS-wrapped protocol or bare protocol.

Correct.  The registry will have to serve there.  The presence or
absence of TLS is arguably of little value in cases where the protocol
is unknown anyway: unless you have some sort of magic I don't know of.

Received on Monday, 30 March 2015 03:54:46 UTC