> On 31 Aug 2016, at 12:21 AM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <d...@fifthhorseman.net> 
> wrote:
> 
> On Tue 2016-08-30 16:14:06 -0400, Hubert Kario wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 30 August 2016 14:19:33 CEST Dave Garrett wrote:
>>> * Keep the version ID as { 3, 4 } (already weird counting; changing risks
>>> more intolerance)
>> 
>> IMNSHO this alone is enough of a reason not to do this
>> 
>> it's enough explaining to people that SSLv3.3 is really TLSv1.2, now we'll
>> have SSLv3.4 == TLSv1.3 == TLSv2.0
>> 
>> it's silly at this point
> 
> Who are you talking to who's fine with looking at the bytes on the wire
> but isn't fine with understanding that a 16-bit field might not map
> directly to our imagination of decimal?

No they don’t always look at the 16-bit field (although they might), but they 
look at you funny when you tell them that 1.0 > 3.0 and that you should totally 
disable 3.0 and prefer to use 1.2 instead.

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