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Re: Working Group Last Call:draft-ietf-smime-certdist-04.txt

1999-10-27 15:49:08

Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 09:09:17 -0700
From: Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman(_at_)imc(_dot_)org>


Disagree. We are far from understanding how certificates are and will be 
published. LDAP certificate retrieval is well-defined, but not yet widely 
implemented, particularly for S/MIME MUAs.

Ignoring for now the issue of alternatives to LDAP, do you agree with
my proposal -- namely, that in the case where LDAP *is* used to carry
the SMimeCertificatePublish object, the certificates field shall be
empty?