Re: [rtcweb] Ben Campbell's Yes on draft-ietf-rtcweb-alpn-03: (with COMMENT)

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Wed, 04 May 2016 03:42 UTC

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Subject: Re: [rtcweb] Ben Campbell's Yes on draft-ietf-rtcweb-alpn-03: (with COMMENT)
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On 4 May 2016 at 13:28, Ben Campbell <ben@nostrum.com> wrote:
> On 3 May 2016, at 22:23, Martin Thomson wrote:
>
>> On 4 May 2016 at 12:40, Ben Campbell <ben@nostrum.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Should I-D.ietf-rtcweb-security-arch be a normative reference, due to the
>>> citation in section 4?
>>
>>
>> That was intended largely as a "such as", would be clearer if it were
>> changed to: Peer authentication, such as that provided by Section X of
>> [I-D.ietf...arch], ...
>
>
> Possibly--but do you expect this to be a situation where a webrtc peer can
> pick from any number of available peer authentication mechanisms in addition
> to what is in security-arch, or is this pretty much it?

That's the right question.  It's the latter, so let's just elevate
this to normative.  It might be that this blocks publication, but
think that the world can do without another RFC for a little longer.