Hi Richard

On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 2:42 PM, Richard Barnes <[email protected]> wrote:

> Roland filed an issue proposing removal of any URIs other than "mailto:";.
>
>
> https://github.com/ietf-wg-acme/acme/issues/159
>
> I think there is another way to look at the issue.  Rather than focusing
on removing PSTN, you could say that he is requesting that mailto: be
universally supported, where other URI forms would be at the discretion of
the CA.

Put that way, I think it's worth consideration.  If there is a single
contact method that ACME requires, mailto makes sense.


> I really strongly disagree with this.  At the level of this protocol, we
> should allow clients to specify whatever types of contact they want, as
> long as it can be specified in a URI.
>
>
A data URI could have instructions on where to show up as a series of
navigational cues, so "can be specified in a URI" may not be enough.

 Ted

I would be willing to have some text that explicitly allows the server to
> filter the contact list, though, so that it's clear to the client what the
> server does and doesn't support.
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