On Mon, Apr 22, 2024 at 2:20 PM Jelte Fennema-Nio <me@jeltef.nl> wrote:
> 1. I strongly believe minor protocol version bumps after the initial
> 3.1 one can be made painless for clients/poolers (so the ones to
> 3.2/3.3/etc). Similar to how TLS 1.3 can be safely introduced, and not
> having to worry about breaking TLS 1.2 communication.
Apologies for focusing on a single portion of your argument, but this
claim in particular stuck out to me. To my understanding, IETF worried
a _lot_ about breaking TLS 1.2 implementations with the TLS 1.3
change, to the point that TLS 1.3 clients and servers advertise
themselves as TLS 1.2 and sneak the actual version used into a TLS
extension (roughly analogous to the _pq_ stuff). I vaguely recall that
the engineering work done for that update was pretty far from
painless.
--Jacob
