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Last Call Review of draft-ietf-tls-oldversions-deprecate-09
review-ietf-tls-oldversions-deprecate-09-secdir-lc-montville-2020-11-23-00

Request Review of draft-ietf-tls-oldversions-deprecate
Requested revision No specific revision (document currently at 12)
Type Last Call Review
Team Security Area Directorate (secdir)
Deadline 2020-11-30
Requested 2020-11-09
Authors Kathleen Moriarty , Stephen Farrell
I-D last updated 2020-11-23
Completed reviews Secdir Last Call review of -09 by Adam W. Montville (diff)
Genart Last Call review of -09 by Mohit Sethi (diff)
Opsdir Last Call review of -09 by Nagendra Kumar Nainar (diff)
Assignment Reviewer Adam W. Montville
State Completed
Request Last Call review on draft-ietf-tls-oldversions-deprecate by Security Area Directorate Assigned
Posted at https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/secdir/QUPYWh1FEBderE_LPyr747ea_Ps
Reviewed revision 09 (document currently at 12)
Result Ready
Completed 2020-11-23
review-ietf-tls-oldversions-deprecate-09-secdir-lc-montville-2020-11-23-00
I have reviewed this document as part of the security directorate's
ongoing effort to review all IETF documents being processed by the
IESG.  These comments were written primarily for the benefit of the
security area directors.  Document editors and WG chairs should treat
these comments just like any other last call comments.

The summary of the review is READY.

It's a short, but comprehensive document deprecating use of TLS v1.1 and v1.2,
and DTLS v1.0. This deprecation avoids reliance upon weak
ciphersuites/cryptographic primitives, and should help focus implementations on
a reduced number of requirements (i.e. no fall-back to weak protocols), which
ideally results in fewer implementation errors.