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Re: [certid] URI match

"Scott Cantor" <cantor.2@osu.edu> Wed, 31 March 2010 23:46 UTC

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>> So, without defining further constraints an URI in subjAltnames is
>> rather useless, isn't it?
> 
> No, because we're trying to be inclusive regarding SANs at this point,
> and SIP certificates (as one example) prefer uniformResourceIdentifier.
> 
> However, I will work to clean this up some more in -04.

Somewhat paraphrasing a question that I think was asked at the app area open meeting last week, is it the intention to encourage new protocols/services that adopt/reference this proposal to favor matching based on URIs where possible or appropriate?

That's something I'm in favor of, and I think worrying about what users think they're connecting to is really beside the point; users don't get this stuff. Our software is supposed to do the right things for them so that they don't have to.

-- Scott

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