[TLS] Re: RFC 9851 on TLS 1.2 is in Feature Freeze

Hi!

Now this one I like!

thanks to everyone that worked on it,
Rob


On Wed, Jul 15, 2026 at 5:03 PM Sean Turner <[email protected]> wrote:

> Congrats to all that participated in the development of this RFC!
>
> Cheers,
> spt
>
> > On Jul 15, 2026, at 19:43, [email protected] wrote:
> >
> > A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries.
> >
> >        RFC 9851
> >
> >        Title:      TLS 1.2 is in Feature Freeze
> >        Author:     R. Salz,
> >                    N. Aviram
> >        Status:     Proposed Standard
> >        Stream:     IETF
> >        Date:       July 2026
> >        Mailbox:    [email protected],
> >                    [email protected]
> >        Pages:      5
> >
> >
> >        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-tls-tls12-frozen-08
> >
> >        URL:        https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9851
> >
> >        DOI:        10.17487/RFC9851
> >
> > Use of TLS 1.3, which fixes some known deficiencies in TLS 1.2, is
> growing. This document specifies that no changes will be approved for TLS
> 1.2 outside of urgent security fixes (as determined by TLS Working Group
> consensus), new TLS Exporter Labels, and new Application-Layer Protocol
> Negotiation (ALPN) Protocol IDs. This applies to TLS only; it does not
> apply to DTLS (in any DTLS version).
> >
> > This document is a product of the Transport Layer Security Working Group
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