Re: draft-kwatsen-reverse-ssh-01 submission for review

Jeff,

On 6/9/11 4:51 AM, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:
> Interestingly, this role reversal -- allowing the SSH server to open
> sessions and run commands on the SSH client, requires no change to the
> SSH protocol at all.  It simply requires that the client sit around
> waiting for a channel-open request from the server and accept it when it
> comes around.  This is exactly the sort of situation in which it is
> appropriate to behave contrary to the SHOULD in RFC4254 section 6.1.

This is where my head has been on this issue.  Why isn't this simply a
matter of going contrary to the SHOULD (which I always thought was too
strong)?

Eliot