On Tue, Dec 24, 2024 at 8:33 AM S Moonesamy <sm+ietf@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
There is the following sentence in the last paragraph of Section 2: "
Put bluntly, post-quantum cryptography for TLS 1.2 WILL NOT be
supported ..." There was a message to the TLS WG mailing list a few
weeks ago:
https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/tls/_U8-rGKfHh6oGPavjmbbibXpXXw/
My reading of the message is that the TLS WG was not against long
term support for Version 1.2 of the protocol [2] while it was for of
a feature freeze for Version 1.2 of the protocol.
...
2. As long as it is not the TLS working group which does the work.
I don't think this inference is correct at all. Rather, the intent was to have
everyone stop working on 1.2.
Formally, draft-ietf-tls-tls12-frozen freezes the IANA registries except for exporter
labels and ALPN IDs. Therefore, any future [0] change to TLS which requires changing
any other code point would be forbidden.
-Ekr
[0] As Rich notes, the TLS-LTS document already has a code point assigned.
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