Matthias Wimmer wrote:
Hi Peter!

Peter Saint-Andre schrieb:
You also won't
find any recommended CA in RFC 2818 (HTTP over TLS).
Certificates for websites don't include specialized OIDs, either.

Well dNSName is some sort of specialized OID for websites (and other
services using the same addressing sceme 'domains'). The id-on-xmppAddr
is also not a special OID for XMPP, but an OID for any service sharing
the same address space (e.g. my SMS service shares the address space
with my Jabber server and e.g. if I would authenticate the SMS clients
using X.509 certificates, I would have to use id-on-xmppAddr as well.

How do you suggest we make server developers aware that it's a good idea
to bundle the XMPP ICA cert and StartCom root cert (and for client
developers the root cert)?

Do we really have to make them aware of? The fact that the XSF runs the
ICA and that many servers in Jabber space already use certificates from
there should make server developers  aware enough about the existence of
the StartCom CA and that it is good to bundle this CA.

So well my "problem" might be, that I do not see any need to make
developers more aware of the existence as they already are.

Sure, I see your point.

Peter

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Peter Saint-Andre
XMPP Standards Foundation
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