RE: non authenticated alternate services (was Re: AD review of draft-ietf-httpbis-alt-svc-10)

Still not wild about the character-for-character part, but as noted, that's off the critical path by moving to Opp-Sec.  The Alt-Svc changes work for me.

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From: Mark Nottingham [mailto:mnot@mnot.net] 
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Subject: Re: non authenticated alternate services (was Re: AD review of draft-ietf-httpbis-alt-svc-10)


> On 19 Jan 2016, at 10:15 am, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On 19 Jan 2016, at 7:32 am, Patrick McManus <pmcmanus@mozilla.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> If the phrase "strong authentication" is making this hard to understand, we might use something else (e.g., "have reasonable assurances that the alternative service is under control of the origin").
>> 
>> that's better. maybe tweak with the "valid for the whole origin" concept? That would certainly include both valid cert as well as the .wk approach.. 
> 
> WFM. I'll update the branch.

Diff from current ED here:
  https://github.com/httpwg/http-extensions/compare/altsvc-samehost?diff=split&name=altsvc-samehost


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