Re: draft-hoffman-rfc2487bis-03.txt

At 10:28 AM +0200 8/29/00, Bodo Moeller wrote:
>If, after having issued the STARTTLS command, the client finds out
>that some failure prevents it from actually starting a TLS handshake,
>then it should just abort the connection.

I'm OK with this if everyone else is. It feels weird to me on a 
protocol level, but I'm not an implementor. More opinions are welcome.

>I think the specification should state that servers MUST be able
>to understand backwards compatible Client Hello messages (provided
>that client_version is TLS 1.0 or later), and that clients MAY
>use backwards compatbile Client Hellos messages.  Of course neither
>clients or servers can be required to actually offer the full
>protocols because the specification is just about TLS.

Sounds OK to me. Other voices?

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