On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 10:05 AM, The IESG <iesg-secretary@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The IESG has received a request from the Transport Layer Security WG > (tls) to consider the following document: > - 'TLS Fallback Signaling Cipher Suite Value (SCSV) for Preventing > Protocol Downgrade Attacks' > <draft-ietf-tls-downgrade-scsv-03.txt> as Proposed Standard > > The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits > final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the > ietf@xxxxxxxx mailing lists by 2015-01-23. Exceptionally, comments may be > sent to iesg@xxxxxxxx instead. In either case, please retain the > beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. +1 on making this document a standard. The mechanism seems sensible and pragmatic. I have implemented the mechanism on the server side and the document was clear and helpful; it took only a few minutes. I'm not clear on how the IANA process works, but if the document progresses to RFC (in any status); it'd be great if the existing extension number and alert values were to remain the same. -- Colm