Subject: Re: [Trans] Error reporting format in draft-ietf-trans-rfc6962-bis

From: Rob Stradling <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2018 22:16:15 +0100

We've merged 
https://github.com/google/certificate-transparency-rfcs/pull/300 and 
(some additional clarifications) 
https://github.com/google/certificate-transparency-rfcs/pull/301.  This 
is in -29.

On 24/08/2018 13:11, Eran Messeri wrote:
> I've proposed text to that effect in:
> https://github.com/google/certificate-transparency-rfcs/pull/300
> 
> Eran
> 
> On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 4:38 PM, Corey Bonnell <[email-masked] 
> <mailto:[email-masked]>> wrote:
> 
>     Hello,____
> 
>     Apologies if this was previously discussed (I searched the TRANS
>     mail archives and didn’t find anything relevant), but section 5 of
>     draft-ietf-trans-rfc6962-bis-28
>     (https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-trans-rfc6962-bis-28#section-5
>     <https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-trans-rfc6962-bis-28#section-5>)
>     describes the preferred error reporting format as a JSON object with
>     “error_code” and “error_message” fields. Instead of using this
>     bespoke error reporting format, I was thinking that using the JSON
>     Problem Details format (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7807
>     <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7807>) would be appropriate here.____
> 
>     __ __
> 
>     Using the RFC 7807 format provides (at least) two advantages over
>     the currently specified format, namely:____
> 
>       * The use of a standard format, which is already being used in
>         other standards (such as ACME)____
>       * The possibility to include additional metadata for error
>         conditions, which may transmit sufficient machine-readable
>         information to allow for CT clients to automatically recover
>         from errors____
> 
>     __ __
> 
>     Thanks,____
> 
>     __ __
> 
>     *Corey Bonnell*____
> 
>     Senior Software Engineer____
> 
>     __ __
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