Re: [saag] IETF 93 Agenda Request - Key Discovery

[Russ Housley <[e-mail]>]

>>> However, do not confuse RFC 7565 "acct:" URIs for email addresses.
>>> Yes, they look a lot like an email address, as a "xmpp:" or "sip:" URI
>>> can look a lot like an email address.  The "acct:" URI is for a
>>> generic account identifier; it could be a placeholder to email, IM,
>>> VoIP, filesharing, etc.
>>> 
>>> My draft is intended for more than email.
>> 
>> A major difficulty is that email addresses and "accounts", are not
>> necessarily in one to one correspondence or even "few to one"
>> correspondence.
> 
> This doesn't actually matter.  WebFinger lets you put any URI in the
> "resource" field.  So just use a "mailto" URI if you're sad about
> "acct".  The document should probably say that, and probably say you
> should return the same thing in either case.

RFC 4387 provides a means to find an X.509 certificate using HTTP.  It seems pretty straightforward.  Do we have any running code for it?

Russ