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
> 
> 
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