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		brongondwana on Feb 3, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft Teams outage due to expired certificate This is why letsencrypt very sensibly creates short-lived certificates, meaning that the channel is not infrequently used.

inimino on Feb 3, 2020 [–]

The channel only needs to be used when the automated process breaks.

brongondwana on Feb 3, 2020 | [–]

Oh right - yeah, that sucks. Rarely used processes often break.

Hence efforts like https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8701 - designed to make sure extensibility options don't get messed up.

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