[ih] History of Naming on The Internet - is it still relevant?

[John Day]

Minor nit. TLS is misnamed, SSL was closer to right.  But it is at the root of many problems.

The first rule for security must be ‘Every layer, including the Application Layer, must protect itself.’

John

> On Jul 21, 2025, at 14:27, Dave Crocker via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
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> On 7/21/2025 11:15 AM, Karl Auerbach via Internet-history wrote:
>> Why do I (and also ISO/OSI) believe that an association protocol (between application layer and transport layer) ought to be there?  And why couldn't DNS take up the slack?
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> Looking at the TLS spec, a long time ago, I discovered that it is extensible, in a way that seems designed to fill exactly that slot.
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> I had been interested in decoupling applications from direct linkage to TCP, so that it could maintain multiple, independent transport paths between end points, and thereby potentially be robust against an outage.
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