-----Original Message-----
From: Al Arsenault [mailto:aarsenault(_at_)spyrus(_dot_)com]
Sent: Friday, November 20, 1998 11:11 AM
To: ietf-smime(_at_)imc(_dot_)org
Subject: Comment on draft-ietf-cert-05.txt
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.
However, there are PKIX certificates that have the version field set to v1.
This version field could also be set to v2, which I don't think we need to
support, and v3 which I think we do. I understand that these version
numbers are from X.509 and not from PKIX.
I am happy to change this to simply be PKIX certificates, but the intent was
to exclude the use of (X.509) v2 certificates. Language welcome.
Blake
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