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Re: Confirm decision on identity handling.



Eric Rescorla wrote:
>>I jumped in late, so probably missed some important parts of this
>>conversation. But binding certificates to IP addresses doesn't
>>seem like a good idea at all, because of how short IP address
>>lifespan may be.
> 
> Given the kind of information the stack has, there are many
> cases where this is the only reasonable thing they might be 
> bound to.

The only information - perhaps. That still doesn't make it
reasonable. For example, (I know you anticipate this :-)
think DHCP.