Re: [Acme] ACME signature mechanics

Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill@hallambaker.com> Thu, 18 December 2014 14:11 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Acme] ACME signature mechanics
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On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 8:23 AM, Hannes Tschofenig <
hannes.tschofenig@gmx.net> wrote:
>
> Hi Phillip,
>
> we already have a mechanism for issuing certificates to embedded
> devices, namely OMA Lightweight M2M. It is already used today.
> That specification is a version of the OMA device management protocol
> (which is also widely used) but uses different protocols that are more
> suitable for the embedded side, such as CoAP and JSON.
>
> Hence, I doubt that this work is something the IoT community is asking for.


Is there a pointer to the spec that is publicly accessible?

In the short term that might be the case. But in the longer term IoT is not
going to be a special case of the Internet, it is going to be the Internet.

I think you are making a case for looking at the OMA protocol and deciding
if we can use it.