Victor Duchovni wrote:
The RFC recommends that one leave out the subject DN, and add a critical
extension with altNames. This does not really explain how matching
should work when the subject DN is present. HTTPS is not necessarily
normative for STARTTLS with SMTP, but in the absence of other guidance,
the HTTPS recommendations have been adopted in other application areas.

True; there is a fair amount of work going on in SIP that is based
on the use of X.509 certs in HTTPS.

- vijay
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