Re: [CHANNEL-BINDING] Re: draft-ietf-sasl-gs2 AD review comments

On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Nicolas Williams wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 07:26:04PM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote:
> > I just had a quick phone call with Nico.
> >
> >
> > He's still been thinking about this from the API standpoint.  I was
> > asking him why we wanted to support separate slots in the protocol for
> > channel binding type and channel binding data.I didn't understand the
> > complexity.  During the conversation it became clear that Nico
> > believed that at the end of the day you want to end up with a channel
> > binding type, a colon and some stuff.  I like that too.  I don't care
> > how it works in the API at all.
> >
> >
> > I propose  we accomplish this by adding the following requirement:
> >
> > "Under this framework, channel bindings MUST start with the channel
> > binding unique prefix followed by a colon (ASCII 0x3A).
> > "
>
> I second this.  Note: Sam's text should be added to either the third
> bullet item in page 7, or as a separate item below it.

Works for me.