> On Jun 21, 2020, at 12:28 PM, Michael Richardson <mcr+i...@sandelman.ca> 
> wrote:
> 
> 
> Russ Housley <hous...@vigilsec.com> wrote:
>> One cannot send email to the character string in this specification, so
>> it should not be carried in the rfc822name.
> 
> You can send email to that character string if you configure the MX.
> It was designed specifically to accomodate that.
> 
> I objected at the time: I thought it was a stupid feature, that no sensible 
> IKEv2 daemon
> was going to have to send/receive email.
> 
> But, Toerless was paranoid that if we did anything at all out of the
> ordinary, that the corporate CA people, in order to protect their fiefdom,
> would freak out and throw some huge roadblock in the way of deploying the ACP.
> 
> And, now have an ACME method past WGLC that does certificate validation by
> SMTP.

Looking at the email certificate enrollment work in the ACME WG 
(draft-ietf-acme-email-smime-08), I have a hard time seeing how the device that 
knows the private key could participate in such a protocol.  How do you see it 
working?

Russ

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