Re: Why is there no ServerMinPrincipalType constraint

Mark Brouwer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.sun.jini
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Gregg Wonderly wrote:

> I'd tend to agree with Bob

That alone is reason enough to disagree with you Gregg ;-)

> Currently we don't have such complications, so I'm not seeing a need for
> a type
> of authentication, yet.  If you are ready to greatly generalize the IL
> mechanisms to carry arbitrary Principals instead of just the two currently,
> explicitly recognized, then we might need to keep certain types from
> flowing
> under certain circumstances.

I hope my response to Bob shows that even with the Kerberos and X.500
principals there can be justification for such a constraint, but I agree
when more principals are supported the need for a wildcard constraint
becomes more evident.
--
Mark

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