> On Nov 18, 2019, at 10:47 AM, Cappalli, Tim (Aruba) <t...@hpe.com> wrote:
> 
> Alan – Adding yet another OID and/or EKU to a certificate does not change the 
> fact that no authority can attest to that information. A public CA cannot 
> validate a ownership of an NAIRealm. 

  That's not true.

  Public CAs validate ownership of domain names. The NAIRealm is a domain name. 
 And, the NAIRealm is the *same* as the domain name in the certificate.  Which 
the CA validated.

  Unless you have a counter-argument, that discussion should be closed.

> So while a supplicant could be configured to validate that the server’s 
> NAIRealm matches the local configuration, that doesn’t change the requirement 
> to manually configure the supplicant.

  I explained how it could simplify the supplicants configuration.

> So what are we actually trying to improve here?

  See my previous messages for explanations.

  Alan DeKok.

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