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Re: Comment on draft-ietf-cert-05.txt

1998-11-20 15:06:59
At 02:11 PM 11/20/98 -0500, Al Arsenault wrote:
      The CERT draft, section 2.2, first sentence, says "Receiving agents MUST
support PKIX V1 and PKIX v3 certificates..."

There are no PKIX v1 certificates.  (This looks like an artifact of a
global replacement X.509 -> PKIX.)  Recommend that this be changed to
"Receiving agents MUST support PKIX certificates..."  unless there is some
other type of certificates that you want to support (say, for backward
compatibility with S/MIMEv2).  If there is such a type of certificates,
please identify it.

I agree. I think we should just say "...support PKIX certificates." This is
particularly hairy because PKIX version 2 certificates have a "1" in their
version field and so on.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium

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