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Subject: RE: [security-services] Extensions and Profiles


> Scott, your extensions doc [1] states
> 
> /In addition, specific profiles MAY define additional requirements or 
> processing rules related to protocol extensions, if the desired profile
> behavior cannot be derived through a reasonable composition of the
> two
> /
> What are the 'two' in '... composition of the two' above. Requirements 
> and processing rules as defined by the extension itself?

It refers to "the protocol extension" and "the profile". It's a weasel
sentence intended to enable a protocol extension to be applied across
profiles without every profile having to retroactively change to reference
the extension unless there are specific considerations that modify the
profile.

-- Scott



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