> Il 20 marzo 2019 alle 12.38 Joe Abley <jab...@hopcount.ca> ha scritto:
> 
> Seems to me that there's a middle ground within sight here.
> 
> Standardise this privacy mechanism, and specify (with reasoning) that it 
> should be implemented such that the existence of the channel (but not the 
> content) can be identified as distinct from other traffic by third parties. 
> Maybe specify use of a different port number, as was done with DoT.
> 
> Those who choose to ignore that direction and create a covert channel using 
> port 443 instead will do so. Nothing much we can do to stop that today (I 
> guarantee it is already happening). The future is not really different.

This is actually the recommendation in section 4.6 of my draft :-) And I agree, 
it looks like the only possible and reasonable compromise between the two 
viewpoints.

Regards,
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