On Mar 21, 2008, at 11:06 AM, Cullen Jennings wrote:
>
> On Mar 20, 2008, at 11:05 PM, Dean Willis wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Let me restate this with fewer typos:
>>
>> I think what Cullen is saying is:
>>
>> If the certificate presented for a SIP domain contains Extended Key
>> Usage values [RFC 3280] , implementations MAY validate those
>> values using the techniques described in I-D.sip-eku[9].
>>
>> and if that's what he's saying, I think this is in conflict with  
>> the text of RFC 3280, which makes validation a MUST.
>>
>> --
>> Dean
>>
>>
>
> This is not at all what I was saying. I was saying that the EKU work  
> is an orthogonal extensions to SIP with very little to do with the  
> text in the domain-certs document and there is no need for this work  
> to mandate support for sip-eku. I have not heard a technical  
> argument why some part of the doamin-certs draft is not  
> implementable without implementing sip-eku. I have heard people say,  
> "sip-eku is a good idea" which is fine and assuming it becomes an  
> RFC, devices that want to implement will implement that RFC.  There  
> are also lots of other drafts that are good ideas and we wish people  
> would do them, however, we don't add as a note to the end over every  
> draft that says "You MUST also implement draft x, y, and z even  
> though they have little to do with this one".
>
> In my mind, the point of domain-certs is largely about to clarify  
> how certain parts of 3261 related to certificates for TLS. People  
> had implemented and were doing more or less all the major parts of  
> domain-certs over 5 years ago - long before folks started even  
> thinking about sip-eku. I think sip-eku is a fine document and  
> should become an RFC. I also think there is a need for a document  
> with roughly the advice in domain-certs. However, I see no reason  
> that domain-certs, something people have been doing for several  
> years, has to mandate implementation of sip-eku. These are very  
> separable issues and should be kept that way.
>

Ok, is this what you mean?

Discussion of Extended Key Usage in certificates used with SIP is  
outside the scope of this document. See I-D.sip-eku[9] for further  
discussion of this topic.

--
Dean
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