1. Summary
Joseph Salowey is the document shepherd and Stephen Farrell is the responsible
AD for this document.
This document is a standards track document that deprecates the use of SSLv3 as
it has significant security flaws.
2. Review and Consensus
This document has been actively reviewed by the TLS working group. There is
strong community consensus behind the document. Many deployments and
implementations have already started disabling SSLv3.
3. Intellectual Property
No IPR declarations have been filed and none are expected.
4. Other Points
The document contains downrefs to versions of TLS documents. This follows what
was done in RFC 6176 (Prohibiting Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Version 2.0).