This works for me, does anyone object to my updating the PR in this fashion?

-Ekr


On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 2:10 AM, Brian Smith <br...@briansmith.org> wrote:

> Kathleen Moriarty <kathleen.moriarty.i...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 4. Section 6.2 Error Alerts
> >
> > In addition to sending the error, I don't see any mention of the error
> > being logged on the server side, shouldn't that be specified?  Logging
> > errors (at least in debug modes when needed) provides valuable
> > troubleshooting information and many applications don't do an adequate
> > job of logging, so I think it's important to call that out here as a
> > recommendation.
>
> I think I agree with what Kathleen wrote here, but the PR that
> attempts to address this
> (https://github.com/tlswg/tls13-spec/pull/1021) seems too strong in
> recommending that servers send alerts. In particular, IMO logging the
> alert shouldn't necessarily be the default and there should be a way
> to disable such logging. I guess saying something such as "The
> implementation SHOULD provide a way to facilitate the logging of the
> error" or similar, instead of "SHOULD log" seems better to me.
>
> In particular, an implementation might not do any logging itself, but
> might return an error code that the higher level thing could log (if
> it wants to). I would generally recommend implementations do this than
> to do logging themselves.
>
> Cheers,
> Brian
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