Hi,

 

IANA’s understanding is that because the IANA Considerations includes guidance 
concerning future assignments, we have to list this document as an additional 
reference for the registry itself.

 

Thanks,

Amanda

 

From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Date: Monday, September 8, 2025 at 3:02 AM
To: Douglas Stebila <[email protected]>
Cc: The IESG <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" 
<[email protected]>, "[email protected]" 
<[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" 
<[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, 
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Subject: [Ext] RE: Mohamed Boucadair's No Objection on 
draft-ietf-tls-hybrid-design-15: (with COMMENT)

 

Hi Douglas, 

 

Thanks for the follow-up. 

 

Please see inline. 

 

Cheers,

Med

 

De : Douglas Stebila <[email protected]> 
Envoyé : dimanche 7 septembre 2025 18:14
À : BOUCADAIR Mohamed INNOV/NET <[email protected]>
Cc : The IESG <[email protected]>; [email protected]; 
[email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; 
[email protected]; [email protected]
Objet : Re: Mohamed Boucadair's No Objection on 
draft-ietf-tls-hybrid-design-15: (with COMMENT)

 



Thank you for the feedback.  I've addressed the minor/nits in 
https://github.com/dstebila/draft-ietf-tls-hybrid-design/commit/fde2d4ea3c5e59ee9c27de7e7408db1dbe1bccf3
 [github.com]. 

[Med] Thanks.

 

Regarding the comments, see inline below:

 

# Why is this Informational?


The justification in the writeup seems clear to me. I do think that it would be
useful to mirror in the abstract or the Introduction the main message grabbed
from the writeup:

“It does not modify TLS directly, but rather using existing mechanisms and code
point registries. It does not define any specific hybrid key exchanges.”

This statement may be revisited based on the outcome of the next item.

# Relaxing a MUST in the base TLS spec?

CURRENT:
  [TLS13] requires that ``The key_exchange values for each
  KeyShareEntry MUST be generated independently.'' In the context of
  this document, since the same algorithm may appear in multiple named
  groups, this document relaxes the above requirement to allow the same
  key_exchange value for the same algorithm to be reused in multiple
  KeyShareEntry records sent in within the same ClientHello.

Isn’t this modifying aspects of the base TLS? How to reconcile this with the
claim in the previous point?

 

You are correct that this relaxes as MUST in the base TLS spec, and as such a 
statement saying "It does not modify TLS directly" would not be fully accurate. 
 If you have some other wording you would suggest to add to the introduction, 
please feel free to suggest it.

[Med] Thanks for confirming. Maybe consider something such as : « Except 
relaxing a MUST on key_exchange values, this document does not require any 
modification to the base TLS specification.“ or similar.

 

Given that implication on base TLS spec, I’m afraid that the intended 
publication status should be reconsidered. 

 

# IANA considerations

Unless I missed something the document provides guidance for future
assignments. Shouldn’t a note be added to the TLS registry to track this
guidance and/or add this document as a reference to the registry?

 

I do now know what text IANA would want to see here; my understanding from 
IANA's review is that they have not requested any further changes.

[Med] Beyond what need to be recorded in an IANA registry, the main point is 
that this section sets guidance for future assignments and we need to make sure 
that guidance is followed.

As I’m there,

CURRENT:
For these entries in
  the TLS Supported Groups registry, the "Recommended" column SHOULD be
  "N" and the "DTLS-OK" column SHOULD be "Y".

I guess this should be the value used in the initial registration. The
recommended value may in theory evolve in the future (far future, maybe). If
so, can we make that explicit in the document?

 

For what reasons do you expect this recommendation may evolve?  I am not sure 
what text to write other than "The recommended value may change in the future", 
which I think is too vague.

[Med] I was actually suggesting this change:

 

OLD: the "Recommended" column SHOULD be …

NEW: the "Recommended" column SHOULD in the initial registration be …

 

Douglas

 
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