Re: ALPN support for GnuTLS connections

[Richard Stallman]

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ALPN sounds useful and a good thing for Emacs to support.
But could you tell me a little more about this point?

  > For a service provider who makes it possible to access PostgreSQL
  > over the internet, there are many benefits to the new ALPN-based mechanism, 
such
  > as allowing the use of commercial “TLS gateways” (that do no 
application-level
  > processing) as entrypoints to their network. I expect that over time, an
  > increasing proportion of internet services will require ALPN.

What is a TLS gateway, and what would a usage scenario look like?
Who would choose to use one -- would it be the server, or the client?

In particular, if you are running your own server and you could set up
whatever network access methods you like, why would someone use a
"gateway" to talk with your server?  And presuming a decision to do
that, why would someone want to use a "commercial" one?

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