[Ace] Alissa Cooper's No Objection on draft-ietf-ace-coap-est-17: (with COMMENT)

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Alissa Cooper has entered the following ballot position for
draft-ietf-ace-coap-est-17: No Objection

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COMMENT:
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Section 10.1:

"It is also RECOMMENDED that the Implicit Trust Anchor database used
   for EST server authentication is carefully managed to reduce the
   chance of a third-party CA with poor certification practices
   jeopardizing authentication."

This strikes me as a slightly odd use of normative language (what are the
exception cases when the trust anchor database should not be carefully
managed?).