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Re: Review of draft-saintandre-tls-server-id-check

Stefan Santesson <stefan@aaa-sec.com> Wed, 08 September 2010 23:45 UTC

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Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:45:41 +0200
Subject: Re: Review of draft-saintandre-tls-server-id-check
From: Stefan Santesson <stefan@aaa-sec.com>
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On 10-09-09 12:10 AM, "Peter Saint-Andre" <stpeter@stpeter.im> wrote:

> Aha, I see the source of confusion. I think the first sentence of
> Section 5.1 is better written as follows:
> 
>    When the connecting application is an interactive client,
>    construction of the reference identifier SHOULD be based on the
>    source domain and service type provided by a human user

Could we remove "and service type" from that sentence.
It is the domain name that is the problem and not the service type right?

I mean, the app may very well know that it is supposed to talk to an XMPP
service without asking a human user.

/Stefan

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