- From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2021 10:30:46 +0200
- To: Martin Thomson <mt@lowentropy.net>
- Cc: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 10:55:08AM +1000, Martin Thomson <mt@lowentropy.net> wrote a message of 20 lines which said: > > The TLS implementation MUST support the Server Name Indication (SNI) [TLS-EXT] extension to TLS. If the server is identified by a domain name [DNS-TERMS], clients MUST send the server_name TLS extension unless an alternative mechanism to indicate the target host is used. > > -- https://httpwg.org/http2-spec/draft-ietf-httpbis-http2bis.html#section-9.2-2 > > Is that clearer? There is also similar updates to the HTTP core documents. > > The intent was never to prohibit the use of IP addresses as > authority. What are the possible "alternative mechanisms"?
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