Consider the case of a person who has an office phone, cell phone, and home-office phone. That's one person with three different devices. Each device needs a unique peer-id (unless you want to somehow enforce that only one device can be on at any given time).
Bruce Diego Suarez wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been reading the RELOAD document and I have a doubt about the > contents of the certificates used in it (Section 3.5.1 Certificate-Based > Security, page 21) and I would appreaciate any help in clearing me it. > > It is about the relationship among usernames, peer-ids and devices. > I see useful an user can have more than one username associate with a > peer-id in a certificate. > I can't see why an user should need more than a peer-id in a > certificate, apart from when different devices have to have different > peer-id even if they belong to the same user. > An this is what I really don't understand. why different devices should > have different peer-ids? I mean, shouldn't we stablish relationships > just between users and peer-ids without worrying about the device being > used? > > I guess, there is a explanation for relating devices to peer-ids, but I > can't find it. > > Thank you in advance. > > Diego > > > > _______________________________________________ > P2PSIP mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/p2psip _______________________________________________ P2PSIP mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/p2psip
