TLS vs STARTTLS

John Gardiner Myers <[email protected]> Fri, 24 Apr 1998 13:11:34 -0700

Newsgroups	gmane.ietf.apps-tls
Organization	Netscape Communications Corporation
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Paul Hoffman / IMC wrote:
> (That's the "TLS" extension, by the way...) I would add before that:

Gaah, hadn't noticed that.  Having the extension be "TLS" in SMTP, but
be "STARTTLS" in IMAP and ACAP seems like a bad thing to me.  Would it
be reasonable to change the SMTP extension to "STARTTLS" at this late
time?