Hi Jim,
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From: Jim Schaad
(Exchange)[SMTP:jimsch(_at_)EXCHANGE(_dot_)MICROSOFT(_dot_)com]
Sent: Friday, February 13, 1998 2:59 PM
To: Ietf-Smime (E-mail)
Subject: Comment on ESS and Privacy Marks
I think that we have a problem with privacy marks as currently
represented in the ASN. To be specific we are currently limited to
PrintableCharacters. I believe that we must expand this to allow for
use of non-English langages. I therefore propose that we switch to the
following definition of PrivacyMark
PrivacyMark ::= CHOICE {
PrintableString (SIZE (1..ub-privacy-mark-length)),
BMPString (SIZE (1..ub-privacy-mark-length))
}
Just a note that it was this identical construct (for PKIFreeText in
PKIX-CMP) that was turned down at the IESG level and prevented CMP from
moving to Proposed Standard. We were told by Harald Alvestrand that
UTF-8 String (or at least OCTET STRING holding UTF-8-encoded characters)
was to be used instead.
Carlisle.