RE: DPD & DPV requirements

["Michael Myers" <myers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I too remain curious since it has been my assertion all along, as expressed
in the DPV draft, that a DPV server is in fact a concentrator of PKI
"awareness".\

Mike


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Kent [mailto:kent@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 8:13 AM
> To: Peter Sylvester
> Cc: ietf-pkix@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: DPD & DPV requirements
>
>
> At 3:30 PM +0100 1/17/01, Peter Sylvester wrote:
> >  > But, the need for both severs to perform path validation still seems
> >  > to be true.
> >
> >Not necessarily: If the DPV server just has to say Yes/No, then
> >it may not be PKI aware.
>
> Huh? The DPV server says yes or no based on evaluation of the path
> relative to specified parameters, and based on available revocation
> status data.  How does it do this if is is not PKI aware?
>
> Steve
>
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