Those changes are fine, thanks.

> On Feb 19, 2026, at 10:42 AM, Madison Church <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Hi Alan,
> 
> Thank you for your quick reply! We have left the citations below as is per 
> your feedback. Two followup items are listed below. Aside from these two 
> items, we have no further comments or questions and will wait for your 
> approval before asking IANA to update their registries. 
> 
> 1) For question 2c, we have left the citation tag as is. Please let us know 
> if this is correct.
> 
> Original:
> The challengePassword field is limited to 255 octets (Section 7.4.9 of 
> [RFC5246] indicates that no existing cipher suite would result in an issue 
> with this limitation).
> 
> 2) The only notable citation update we have made in AUTH48 is shown below. 
> Please let us know if this is correct.
> 
> Original:
> The other TLS keying materials are derived and used as defined in
> [RFC5246].
> 
> Current:
> The other TLS keying materials are derived and used as defined in
> [RFC8446].
> 
> The updated files have been posted here (please refresh):
>   https://www.rfc-editor.org/authors/rfc9930.txt
>   https://www.rfc-editor.org/authors/rfc9930.pdf
>   https://www.rfc-editor.org/authors/rfc9930.html
>   https://www.rfc-editor.org/authors/rfc9930.xml
>   https://www.rfc-editor.org/authors/rfc9930-diff.html
>   https://www.rfc-editor.org/authors/rfc9930-rfcdiff.html (side by side)
>   https://www.rfc-editor.org/authors/rfc9930-auth48diff.html
>   https://www.rfc-editor.org/authors/rfc9930-auth48rfcdiff.html (side by side)
>   https://www.rfc-editor.org/authors/rfc9930-lastdiff.html
>   https://www.rfc-editor.org/authors/rfc9930-lastrfcdiff.html (side by side)
> 
> AUTH48 status page: https://www.rfc-editor.org/auth48/rfc9930 
> 
> Thank you!
> Madison Church
> RFC Production Center
> 
>> On Feb 18, 2026, at 10:35 AM, Alan DeKok <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> On Feb 18, 2026, at 10:56 AM, Madison Church <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>>>> 1) For #23 and #25, we have updated the corresponding text in the file 
>>>> when updating the BCP citations. Please review and let us know if the text 
>>>> appears as desired.
>> 
>> The text is fine
>> 
>>>> 2) Upon further review, we came across a few instances of text where we 
>>>> are unsure if updating to use RFC 8446 is correct. Please review each 
>>>> instance below and let us know how we should update. Note that we will 
>>>> continue to cite RFC 5246 where there is a direct mention of TLS 1.2.
>>>> 
>>>> a) Original:
>>>> TEAP is in full conformance with TLS ticket extension [RFC5077].
>>>> 
>>>> Separately, we note that this is the only mention of the term "TLS ticket 
>>>> extension", whereas "SessionTicket extension" is used multiple times in 
>>>> this document. Should the term be updated as follows?
>>>> 
>>>> Perhaps:
>>>> TEAP is in full conformance with the SessionTicket extension [RFC5077].
>> 
>> Yes.
>> 
>>>> 
>>>> b) Original:
>>>> It is REQUIRED that anonymous cipher suites such as 
>>>> TLS_DH_anon_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA [RFC5246] only be used in the case when 
>>>> the inner method provides mutual authentication, key generation, and 
>>>> resistance to on-path and dictionary attacks.
>>>> 
>>>> (Note that TLS_DH_anon_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA does not appear in RFC 8446.)
>> 
>> I think it's fine to leave that as a reference to RFC5246.
>> 
>>>> c) The challengePassword field is limited to 255 octets (Section 7.4.9 of 
>>>> [RFC5246] indicates that no existing cipher suite would result in an issue 
>>>> with this limitation).
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> d) The TLS-PRF is defined in [RFC5246] as: 
>>>> PRF(secret, label, seed) = P_<hash>(secret, label | seed)
>>>> 
>>>> (Note that this definition does not appear in RFC 8446.)
>> 
>> Leaving that as RFC5246 is OK.
>> 
>>>> 
>>>> e) Original:
>>>> The derivation of S-IMCK is as follows:
>>>> 
>>>> S-IMCK[0] = session_key_seed
>>>> For j = 1 to n-1 do
>>>> IMCK[j] = the first 60 octets of TLS-PRF(S-IMCK[j-1],
>>>> "Inner Methods Compound Keys",
>>>> IMSK[j])
>>>> S-IMCK[j] = first 40 octets of IMCK[j]
>>>> CMK[j] = last 20 octets of IMCK[j]
>>>> 
>>>> where TLS-PRF is the PRF (described above) negotiated as part of TLS
>>>> handshake [RFC5246].
>> 
>>  Leaving that as RFC5246 is OK.
>> 
>>>> 
>>>> f) For instance, the Certificate Status Request extension [RFC6066] and the
>>>> Multiple Certificate Status Request extension [RFC6961] can be used
>>>> to leverage a certificate-status protocol…
>>>> 
>>>> (Note: No mention of Multiple Certificate Status Request extension in RFC 
>>>> 8446.)
>> 
>> I think that text is fine as-is/
>> 
>>>> The files have been posted here (please refresh):
>>>> https://www.rfc-editor.org/authors/rfc9930.txt
>>>> https://www.rfc-editor.org/authors/rfc9930.pdf
>>>> https://www.rfc-editor.org/authors/rfc9930.html
>>>> https://www.rfc-editor.org/authors/rfc9930.xml
>>>> 
>>>> Diff files:
>>>> https://www.rfc-editor.org/authors/rfc9930-diff.html
>>>> https://www.rfc-editor.org/authors/rfc9930-rfcdiff.html (side by side)
>>>> https://www.rfc-editor.org/authors/rfc9930-auth48diff.html
>>>> https://www.rfc-editor.org/authors/rfc9930-auth48rfcdiff.html (side by 
>>>> side) 
>>>> https://www.rfc-editor.org/authors/rfc9930-alt-diff.html (shows moved text)
>>>> 
>>>> AUTH48 status page: https://www.rfc-editor.org/auth48/rfc9930
>>>> 
>>>> Thank you!
>>>> Madison Church
>> 
> 

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