Moreover, substantively the same text has been in the document for years,
and given that it's already been through both WGLC and IETF LC, I think
it's really quite late to be relitigating it.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-tls-esni-07#section-12

-Ekr


On Sat, Jun 14, 2025 at 6:44 PM Eric Rescorla <[email protected]> wrote:

> This isn't an addition. This text was previously in an appendix and was
> just moved into the main text. Here is a direct link to this text in -24.
>
> https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-tls-esni-24.html#appendix-A
>
> -Ekr
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 14, 2025 at 6:11 PM Stephen Farrell <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hiya,
>>
>> I looked at the diff. I don't object to it, on the basis that
>> getting an RFC out is better than faffing around for more years.
>> I do think one of the changes is unwise, that being the addition
>> of:
>>
>> '
>> Any future information or hints that influence ClientHelloOuter
>> SHOULD be specified as ECHConfig extensions.  This is primarily
>> because the outer ClientHello exists only in support of ECH.  Namely,
>> it is both an envelope for the encrypted inner ClientHello and
>> enabler for authenticated key mismatch signals (see Section 7).  In
>> contrast, the inner ClientHello is the true ClientHello used upon ECH
>> negotiation."
>> '
>> The above is logical in that it follows the logic the WG has
>> accepted, but I've always thought ECHConfig extensions were a bad
>> plan, so I'd be much happier with s/SHOULD/are expected to be/ in
>> the above. I'd be even happier with s/SHOULD/might well be/ but
>> am almost certainly in the rough on that.
>>
>> The 'why' of my position is that we have loads of TLS extension
>> codepoints available, and if we need to change ECH that much we can
>> more easily use something that is not 0xfe0d for extensibility.
>> (And yes, I know others disagree with me on that.)
>>
>> Again though, it'll be better to emit an RFC than to spend yet
>> more time on this, so I'm not objecting to -25, I'm only
>> complaining:-)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> S.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 14/06/2025 20:09, [email protected] wrote:
>> > Internet-Draft draft-ietf-tls-esni-25.txt is now available. It is a
>> work item
>> > of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) WG of the IETF.
>> >
>> >     Title:   TLS Encrypted Client Hello
>> >     Authors: Eric Rescorla
>> >              Kazuho Oku
>> >              Nick Sullivan
>> >              Christopher A. Wood
>> >     Name:    draft-ietf-tls-esni-25.txt
>> >     Pages:   53
>> >     Dates:   2025-06-14
>> >
>> > Abstract:
>> >
>> >     This document describes a mechanism in Transport Layer Security
>> (TLS)
>> >     for encrypting a ClientHello message under a server public key.
>> >
>> > Discussion Venues
>> >
>> >     This note is to be removed before publishing as an RFC.
>> >
>> >     Source for this draft and an issue tracker can be found at
>> >     https://github.com/tlswg/draft-ietf-tls-esni
>> >     (https://github.com/tlswg/draft-ietf-tls-esni).
>> >
>> > The IETF datatracker status page for this Internet-Draft is:
>> > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tls-esni/
>> >
>> > There is also an HTML version available at:
>> > https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-tls-esni-25.html
>> >
>> > A diff from the previous version is available at:
>> > https://author-tools.ietf.org/iddiff?url2=draft-ietf-tls-esni-25
>> >
>> > Internet-Drafts are also available by rsync at:
>> > rsync.ietf.org::internet-drafts
>> >
>> >
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