ietf-nntp draft-ietf-nntpext-tls-nntp-00

[Ken Murchison]

Joao Prado Maia wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Jeffrey M. Vinocur wrote:
> 
> > Ok, I will remove MULTIDOMAIN from the STARTTLS draft.  I can't decide
> > whether we have consensus or just apathy in the other thread (virtual
> > hosting in NNTP); if people want a standalone command similar to
> > MULTIDOMAIN from this draft, I'll just reuse the text.
> >
> 
> I think it is just apathy. I believe everybody agreed that something like
> that could be useful in a very specific use case, but didn't really agreed
> if the command should be an addition to the new version of the NNTP
> protocol or just another extension.
> 
> My only problem with making it an extension is how hard it would be to
> lobby the newsreader vendors to support it.

The MULTIDOMAIN extension that Jeff documented was specific to TLS.  It
wasn't even a command, it just enabled extending the STARTTLS command to
include a domain.  This simply told the server which cert to use.

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