Re: [Spasm] Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-ietf-lamps-eai-addresses-09.txt

[Wei Chuang <[e-mail]>]

On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 12:28 PM, Viktor Dukhovni <[e-mail]>
wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 04:35:55PM -0700, Jim Schaad wrote:
>
> >     * The new text of section 6 is confusing.  There seems to be
> >       a misunderstanding here, that may account for both the
> >       technical errors and the confusing explanatory text.
> >
> > [JLS]  I am still trying to find the energy to go through the document,
> but
> > I agree that there does need to be some editing  before the document
> > progresses.
>
> In particular section 6 needs work.  Perhaps shorter, focused much
> more on the protocol, and less on the rationale (which could be
> touched on briefly at the end).
>
> Why is the example (2nd pair of addresses) showing A-labels in the
> domain part of the SMTPUtf8Name SAN element?  I thought those were
> supposed to be stored as UTF-8.


That's right.  Thanks for pointing out the bug in the example diagram.  The
SmtpUTF8Name non-ASCII label should be UTF-8.


> Why is there an rfc822Name SAN
> element with A-labels?


Its to point out that both subjectAltName types co-exist, and that they
represent domains differently.  For name constraints the only allowed type
is rfc822Name.

-Wei