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Re: WG Last Call: draft-ietf-smime-examples-14.txt

2004-08-11 07:02:13

I have a few comments.

TECHNICAL

The references are obsolete.  The normative references are:

   [CMS] Cryptographic Message Syntax, RFC 2630.

   [PKIX] PKIX Certificate and CRL Profile, RFC 2459.

   [SMIME-MSG] S/MIME Version 3 Message Specification. RFC 2633.

A new version of each of these documents has been published as a standards-track RFC.

Please delete the following paragraphs from the Introduction prior to submission to the IESG:

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EDITORIAL

Section 1 says:

   The examples shown here were created and validated by many different
   people over a long period of time.

This seems like a good place to say something about the dates used in the examples. I see no need to generate new examples will more recent dates; however, the implementor should be warned about the dates used in the examples. The certificates have very long lifespans to avoid having to play with clock settings.

In section 2: s/in this spec./in this document./

Russ


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