From: John Gardiner Myers <jgmyers(_at_)netscape(_dot_)com>
[Three pages of mixed undisputed fact, irrelevancy, and
unmeasurable and unsubstantiated assertion, leading up to ..]
So, we have clearly demonstrated a need to explicitly define a set of
mandatory minimum identifier syntaxes.
or, the equally meaningful "we have clearly demonstrated that
the sun rises every day".
Does anyone disagree that the mandatory-to-support identifier syntax
for S/MIME user agents includes { Name, rfc822Name }? (That is, an
S/MIME-compliant MUA must be capable of displaying, at a minimum, the
subject distinguished name, as well as two of the nine defined forms of
GeneralName.)
All the rest is policy, not interoperability.