On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 1:37 PM, Adam Roach <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 12/5/17 15:34, Gould, James wrote:
>
>> Ok, I believe whether it’s a SHOULD or a MUST, it would need to go
>> through the working group.  The proposal would then be to add the sentence
>> “When using digital signatures the server MUST validate the digital
>> signature.” to the end of the 2.6.3 “Digital Signature” paragraph.
>>
>
>
> I agree that the addition of a normative requirement like this would need
> WG sign-off.
>

I'm pretty surprised to hear this. Presumably any system which has digital
signatures actually needs those signatures to be verified. When I made this
point, I was just talking about clarity, but perhaps people have some
different idea about how the system is supposed to work.

-Ekr


> Chairs -- please treat this the same as the normative statement change Ben
> has requested.
>
> /a
>
>
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