Subject: [ietf-tls] Re: London

From: Eric Rescorla <[email-masked]>
Date: 05 Jul 2001 13:45:53 -0700

"Joseph Hui" <[email-masked]> writes:
> Incrementing the minor number may complicate whatever somehow.
> But it would certainly "uncomplicate" to great extent the task
> of convincing browser/server vendors to adopt dns_name quickly.
> The fact of matter is: the vendors are not direct beneficiaries
> of dns_name, so they need some extra incentives to move. 
> If we can't tempt them with greed (as all browsers are free), 
> then fear -- the fear of falling behind one TLS revision -- is
> the obvious alternative.
I see no reason to believe that incrementing the version number
will have this effect. Perhaps the representatives from Microsoft
and Netscape would be so good as to offer an opinion here.

-Ekr

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