Re: [Ace] draft-ietf-ace-coap-est-00

peter van der Stok <stokcons@xs4all.nl> Wed, 14 March 2018 08:18 UTC

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From: peter van der Stok <stokcons@xs4all.nl>
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>     >> * Should probably add a note in section 6 that any proxy that 
> terminates
>     >> the
>     >> DTLS connection is going to be required to act as an RA.  RAs
> are required
>     >> to have the entire request for adding authentication as 
> necessary.
> 
>     > This is visible in the figure of section 6, but needs elaboration 
> in the
>     > text.
> 
> I don't understand why we have that paragraph.
> An end point that terminates the Pledge (D)TLS connection and acts as
> an RA *IS* a Join Registrar, not a Proxy.
> 

Thus is outside the BRSKI context, and thus a proxy with RA (separate or 
not)