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

Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im> Thu, 09 September 2010 17:55 UTC

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On 9/8/10 5:45 PM, Stefan Santesson wrote:
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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.

Yes, that change makes sense.

Peter

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