On 2015-05-19 00:03, Peter Saint-Andre - &yet wrote:
> On 5/17/15 9:55 AM, Kim Alvefur wrote:
>> Hello list!
> 
> Hi Zash!
> 
>> Georg Lukas noted that section 4.1 says, in the context of XMPP, to use
>> to='xmpp23.hosting.example.net' in the stream header, as that is the
>> "functional equivalent" of SNI in XMPP.  However, that conflicts with
>> the current semantics of 'to' being the service domain name to the
>> server host name.  That will break many, if not all, deployed servers.
>> The server should know what certificate to use for the indicated domain
>> name.
>>
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-dane-srv-14#section-4.1
> 
> Hmm.
> 
> First, all draft-ietf-dane-srv says is that you don't need to use SNI in
> XMPP because we already have a way for the TLS client to specify which
> domain name it expects of the TLS server, i.e., the 'to' address of the
> initial stream header.

What I tried to say was that this sentence in the draft is confusing
and/or wrong in the context of XMPP:

SRV is secure: [...] The target server host name is the preferred name
for TLS SNI or its equivalent.

> Second, draft-ietf-xmpp-dna is the document that specifies the behavior
> of XMPP entities. So IMHO this is a topic for the XMPP WG list, not the
> DANE WG list. I'll forward this message to that list and continue the
> conversation there.

Right, dane-srv doesn't have authority over XMPP specifics.

Thanks :)

-- 
Kim "Zash" Alvefur

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