Re: [saag] Discovery: can it be solved

David Schinazi <dschinazi.ietf@gmail.com> Wed, 17 November 2021 19:20 UTC

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From: David Schinazi <dschinazi.ietf@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2021 11:20:31 -0800
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Subject: Re: [saag] Discovery: can it be solved
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On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 2:13 AM Ted Hardie <ted.ietf@gmail.com> wrote:

> Your model is presuming a pretty powerful vendor, who can establish trust
> with multiple proxies and who is maintaining contracts with them to achieve
> its goals.  Less powerful (or wealthy) software providers will likely rely
> on shared infrastructure for this, and there are models in which an
> organization rather than a vendor provides them (a university might stand
> up an OHAI-like proxy, for example, to protect the data of its students).
>

I'd like to understand this example better. Who is the university
protecting the student from? How does the client device discover the OHAI
server?

Thanks,
David