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   <front>
      <title>Allow using serverAuth certificates for mutual TLS (mTLS) authentication in server-to-server usages.</title>
      <author initials="K." surname="Frank" fullname="Klaus Frank">
         </author>
      <date month="June" day="16" year="2025" />
      <abstract>
	 <t>   This document aims to standardize the validation of mutual TLS
   authentication between servers (server-to-server).  It outlines
   recommended validation flows as well as provides practical design
   recommendations.  Basically the EKU id-kp-clientAuth and id-kp-
   serverAuth get more precisely defined to represent their common
   understanding by issuing CAs and browsers.  id-kp-clientAuth aka.
   &quot;TLS WWW client authentication&quot; SHOULD mean authentication of a
   natural or legal entity.  id-kp-serverAuth aka.  &quot;TLS WWW server
   authetnication&quot; SHOULD mean authentication of a device.  When two id-
   kp-clientAuth certificates are used this means E2E authentication
   between two users.  Where as two id-kp-serverAuth certificates being
   used means server-to-server authentication.  And one user and one
   server certificate within one TLS connection means client-to-server
   (or technically also server-to-client).  The term &quot;TLS-Client&quot; SHOULD
   no longer be used and mean the party sending the initial package
   while establishing a TLS connection.  This helps to avoid design
   issues moving forward as currently some people thought TLS-Client
   auth was only ever used in &quot;client-to-server&quot; and never within
   &quot;server-to-server&quot; context.  Which sparked the demand for this
   document to begin with to keep server-to-server auth with public
   trusted certificates working.

	 </t>
      </abstract>
   </front>
   <seriesInfo name="Internet-Draft" value="draft-frank-mtls-via-serverauth-extension-00" />
   
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