Re: [TLS] Re: Comments ondraft-santesson-tls-ume-04/draft-santesson-tls-supp-00

"Stefan Santesson" <stefans@microsoft.com> writes:

> Eric,
>
> It seems that we have a misunderstanding (or disagreement?) on the scope
> of this document.
>
> It is not intended to specify the UPN of Active Directory or how user
> account names in Active Directory are obtained.
>
> It neither intends to specify how any server environment should map this
> hint to any account.
>
> The scope of this document is to specify a _generic_ protocol syntax for
> exchanging hints. In addition to this the document specifies one
> specific hint type that may be used to send over a domain hint or a
> user@domain hint.
> Other hint types may be defined in future standards.
>
> Any references to use in a Microsoft environment should only be viewed
> as implementation examples.
>
> I've said before that I'm willing to change the name (not using "UPN" at
> all as variable name), keeping the same syntax, if that helps clarifying
> this.

The problem is that without specifying the semantics, this document
just creates an opaque hole that isn't really implementable in an
interoperable way, for the reasons I indicated. 

-Ekr

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