Re: Need your input on finalissuesondraft-ietf-syslog-transport-tls

I have been away, so my comments are late...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of tom.petch
> Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2008 6:43 PM
> To: Chris Lonvick; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Syslog] Need your input on finalissuesondraft-ietf-
> syslog-transport-tls
> 

[snip]

> 
> b) Technically, I think it the wrong direction to allow a common name
> to
> override a subjectAltName, I believe the world is going the other way;
> and I am
> unclear from this how much wildcarding is permitted in a locally
> configured name
> (seems to be unconstrained ).

I agree with Tom. I think we should NOT MANDATE to check the common name
if a subject AltName is present. I always understood the previous text
so that common name would be a fallback if and only if no subjectAltName
was present.

Rainer
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