Brian:

Is the AD that sponsored that document part of this discussion?  If not, I 
suggest that we loop them in.

Russ

> On Aug 20, 2021, at 3:10 PM, Brian Sipos <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Rich, I see your point. I had made my own assumptions that tools would 
> validate that the SAN URI contained a valid URI and nothing more. But because 
> the RFC 5280 requires more about the authority part some tools/libraries are 
> free to throw out URIs that have some other (RFC-invalid) authority part.
> 
> Unfortunately, the document this most affects is already in the editor queue. 
> But I think the new otherName type-id OID will be needed to avoid potential 
> tooling compatibility issues. My plan is to propose adding a new otherName 
> OID for any DTN Endpoint ID (as a URI) and then use that for DTN Node IDs as 
> a subset of EIDs. The logic is almost identical to current SAN URI except for 
> those DNS/IP related restrictions on SAN URI content being replaced by DTN 
> scheme restrictions.
> 
> On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 11:11 AM Salz, Rich <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Does it seems like it's at all reasonable, from the perspective of the 
> security area and focus on PKIX (documents and tools), for an application 
> profile like this to say to conform to "... RFC 5280 with the exception of 
> the FQDN/IP-address restriction on URI authority part". It's not exactly an 
> update to RFC 5280 but I don't know how valid or typical it is for one RFC to 
> relax requirements from a normative reference.
>  
> 
> How would that work?  Let’s take an application using OpenSSL.  It currently 
> calls d2i_X509() to parse the DER into internal format. It does various cert 
> checks along the way. Would you add a new API (because you can’t change the 
> calling sequence it breaks all existing applications), and then pass that 
> flag down through all the call stack?
> 
>  
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