Re: [core] Tossing around URIs to use outside an application

Christian Amsüss <christian@amsuess.com> Tue, 18 May 2021 10:17 UTC

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> … and we should define an information model for this so we aren’t
> stuck with DNS for providing that information.

Whatever comes out of the EDHOC discussion about transferring public
keys by value could also serve this purpose. In [82] and [88],
contenders for that seem to be stripped-down `COSE_Key`s, C509
"certificates" (AIU they're not necessarily certificates but can be RPKs
just as well) and CWTs.

This has some overlap with what can currently be expressed in DNS
(public-by-value would relate to SubjectPublicKeyInfo).

BR
c

[82]: https://github.com/lake-wg/edhoc/issues/82
[82]: https://github.com/lake-wg/edhoc/issues/88

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