Hello QUIC WG,

<Speaking as an editor on the qlog drafts>

The qlog main schema has for a while included a definition about how to
retrieve qlogs from a server by accessing a URI that uses a .well-known;
see Section 7.2 of draft-ietf-quic-qlog-main-schema  [1]. While this type
of thing was considered useful during earlier periods of QUIC interop,
research or debugging, it was recommended that production servers not
support this access method due to various security and privacy reasons.

The editors are not aware of this .well-known method being used in
actuality. Sharing of qlogs for a range of purposes can be done pretty
trivially using alternative out-of-band or custom means. Standardizing the
.well-known method would require adding a lot more meat to the bones of its
definition, which is work that the editors do not think is worth the effort
or possible delay it could impose. Our proposal is to drop this from the
spec for now, and let it be picked up in future (perhaps even in a
different WG) if people want it. Robin notes that Brian Trammel proposed
something along these lines a while back but we don't seem to have tracked
it anywhere. So to avoid that again I've created an issue [2] and PR [3].

We think this is an uncontroversial move. However, please speak now if you
feel strongly about keeping this in the draft, or are interested in pursue
.well-known as a separate item.

Cheers
Lucas

[1] -
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-quic-qlog-main-schema#section-7.2
[2] - https://github.com/quicwg/qlog/issues/313
[3] - https://github.com/quicwg/qlog/issues/315

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