Re: [TLS] Status of X.509v3 TLS Feature Extension?

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Mon, 28 April 2014 14:57 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
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Those are all really good questions, but seem to me that they're a matter of local trust policy and not policy that should be nailed down in an RFC.  Do you disagree?

	/r$

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