Re: draft-housley-tls-authz-extns-07.txt to Proposed Standard

[ned+ietf at mauve.mrochek.com]

> On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, Aaron Williamson wrote:

> > ned+ietf at mauve.mrochek.com wrote:
> >> I completely disagree with this assessment. The points you mention are quite
> >> specifically talking about Agreements, not certificates.
> >
> > Yes, this is obviously right, "Agreements" are not certificates.  But I don't
> > think it's clear that storing Agreements covers only "a fairly specific set of

> Hmmmm, my interpretation would be that a certificate is in fact
> documentation of an agreement between the CA and the owner/user of the
> cert. I see no distinction between 'agreements' and 'certificates' in this
> context.

Again, the term "agreement" in this context has a specific meaning given in
item 2. IMO certs do not fit this definition. They're not even close.

				Ned