Re: UTA: Server certificate management (Re: Last Call: <draft-ietf-uta-email-tls-certs-05.txt>)

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>As I read that spec, it says mandatory to implement, not mandatory to
>use (it's up to the application whether it claims to be capable of using
>it or not) - but it permits servers to mandate its use. *Almost* there -
>but if this draft wishes to mandate its use, it will have to say so (and
>say which identifier it's going to send - AFAIK, it only gets to send one.)

Even with SNI, we still have the problem that there's no way for the
CA to tell what SRV-IDs it should sign other than using RFC 6186
lookups.  But the MUA can do the same 6186 lookup, and that scales a
lot better for the many mail systems that handle large and changing
sets of client domains.

R's,
John




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