Re: [security-services] Extensions and Profiles

[Paul Madsen <paulmadsen@rogers.com>]

thanks Scott, do you also forsee the possibility of, rather than 
changing existing profiles to address use of a new extension, the 
definition of new profiles that extend an existing profile in order to 
do so?

paul

Scott Cantor wrote:

>>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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