Re: draft agenda for San Jose meeting

> From Christopher Allen <ChristopherA@consensus.com>

> The short outline of "tls-changes" is:
> 
>         1. MAC algorithm
>         2. MAC contents
>         3. Block padding
>         4. Message order standardization
>         5. Certificate chain contents
>         6. The no_certificate alert
>         7. Additional alerts
>         8. Seperation of Record and Handshake layers
>         9. Additional Record Protocol clients

I strongly recommend that these be separated into 2 parts: those that
force a change the current protocol (bits on the wire), and those that
are clarifications of current practice.

In particular points 1., 2., and 6. above would make all current
implementations non-conforming. Do we have examples of interoperability
between the proposed protocol and existing implementations? Would the
version number be rolled forward?

I suspect that those at the meeting will want to treat these proposals
independently.

PK
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Philip L. Karlton               karlton@netscape.com
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Received on Monday, 2 December 1996 14:17:29 UTC