To:
stephen.farrell@baltimore.ie
Cc:
keydist@cafax.se
From:
RJ Atkinson <rja@extremenetworks.com>
Date:
Thu, 4 Apr 2002 10:36:47 -0500
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<3CAC5D03.8C56FEDF@baltimore.ie>
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Subject:
Re: Let's assume DNS is involved
On Thursday, April 4, 2002, at 09:02 , Stephen Farrell wrote: > >> a) There is no certification authority which signs keys for where the >> name >> is an IP address. > > That's a bit misleading. I think the original intent was to say that there is no existing CA which is definitively authoritative for names where the name is an IP address. One could imagine a world where ARIN operated a CA for IP addresses in its purview (ditto for RIPE or APNIC), but none of them seem to have done so just yet. Ran rja@extremenetworks.com