Re: ALPN

Alexey Melnikov <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.smtp
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 10/07/2021 22:43, John Levine wrote:

> It appears that Claus Assmann  <[email protected]> said:
>> On Thu, Jul 08, 2021, John Levine wrote:
>>
>>> Maybe we should request two, one for SMTP and one for SUBMIT.
>> Is it worth the hassle? What problem does that solve?  Isn't one
>> for SMTP enough to resolve the potential protocol attacks?
> I dunno.  It's not immediately obvious what the problem would be
> to share the same ALPN among all four mail applications, SMTP,
> SUBMIT, IMAP, and POP.

I think having separate allocations for them would be clean design.

However, ALPN seem to be intended for multiple protocols sharing the 
same IP/port. This doesn't seem to apply to SMTP/SUBMIT/IMAP/POP. Or am 
I missing the point of ALPN?
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