Peter Gutmann and I have been discussion several aspects of the
Internet-Draft. I'd like comments from everyone on one point that has come up.
Peter suggesting putting the attributes in a SEQUENCE instead of a SET.
>> attributes SEQUENCE OF Attribute
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>I wish we had done this in 1999. I feel that we missed the opportunity. It
>was not done at that time because people wanted to preserve backward
>compatibility. The pressure to keep the current encoding will be even
>stronger today.
I can understand this for existing content-types, but since AuthEnvelopedData
is a new content type for which there's no backwards compatibility, it'd be an
quick and easy fix.
I wonder if people have put all of the attribute handling in a common
library routine. If so, then making this change would be a real pain
rather than a help. Please let me know.
Russ