Re: I-D Action:draft-ietf-sasl-channel-bindings-00.txt

[Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 02:03:47PM -0700, Kurt Zeilenga wrote:
> I generally do not favor changing RFC 4422 as discussed in this I-D.
> 
> My view is that while GS2 mechanisms (such as SCRAM) handle channel in  
> similar ways (by design), we should not impose any restriction that  
> other mechanisms which support channel bindings do so in a like way.
> 
> For instance, many of the suggested restrictions make little sense for  
> YAP.  Nor would they necessarily make sense for a "channel-bound"  
> EXTERNAL mechanism (which, BTW, I have in the works).

Can you elaborate?  Also, EXTERNAL is just not an issue.