The IESG has approved the following document: - 'A TLS ClientHello padding extension' (draft-ietf-tls-padding-04.txt) as Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Transport Layer Security Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Stephen Farrell and Kathleen Moriarty. A URL of this Internet Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tls-padding/ Technical Summary This memo describes a TLS extension that can be used to pad ClientHello messages to a desired size. Working Group Summary This extension was originally introduced to work around a particular vendor's issue. Its deployment was successful. Since then it has been found that this extension can serve to alleviate issues with issues in several vendor's products. There was good consensus to move forward with this document as it may find further applicability in the future. Document Quality There are multiple interoperable implementations (web browsers and web servers) of this extension deployed today. It works well to solve the problem. Personnel Document shepherd is Joseph Salowey The irresponsible area director is Stephen Farrell
