On 06/27/2017 05:15 AM, Rifaat Shekh-Yusef wrote:
>  
>
>     The server would create an order object with one or more
>     authorizations objects that need to be fulfilled. 
>
>
> My point is that the pre-authorization request (i.e. new-authz) would
> have already created 
> a pending authorization object with the challenges for the client.
The ACME server MAY reuse existing pending authorizations, or it may
create new ones. You should not rely on the pending authorizations that
result from a new-order request being the same as ones previously
created by new-authz requests.

>
> What I have in mind for this is that ACME client might be representing
> more than one entity 
> when it is using the pre-authorization procedure, as specified in
> section 7.4.1.
>
> The use case I have in mind is to use this pre-authorization mechanism
> for a client to issue certificates
> for large number of *endpoints*.
>
> Instead of sending a new-authz request per endpoint, it might be
> useful to allow the client to send one 
> request for a list of endpoints.
I'm not clear what you mean by entity and endpoint in this question. Are
you thinking of people, machines, companies, DNS names, IP addresses, or
something else?
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