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RE: I-D Action:draft-hoffman-cms-new-asn1-00.txt

2007-11-08 19:38:25

I am interested in moving the specs up to the later ASN.1 version.

spt  

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Greetings again. Jim Schaad and I have created a draft that 
contains revised ASN.1 modules for some of the standards-track 
RFCs for S/MIME. These modules conform to ASN.1 2002. We want 
to see if people are interested in bringing the S/MIME specs 
up to the new ASN.1 now that there is an open source, freeware 
ASN.1 compiler for ASN.1 2002, a2c (see 
<http://code.google.com/p/a2c/>).

This is definitely a first draft. There is a list of issues 
that we want to address, and we expect more issues to come up 
in the WG. 
Please review the draft and let us know what you think. FWIW, 
there is a parallel draft for PKIX.

A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts 
directories.

     Title           : New ASN.1 Modules for CMS and S/MIME
     Author(s)       : P. Hoffman, J. Schaad
     Filename        : draft-hoffman-cms-new-asn1-00.txt
     Pages           : 32
     Date            : 2007-11-08

The Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS) format, and many associated 
formats, are expressed using ASN.1.  The current ASN.1 
modules conform 
to the 1988 version of ASN.1.  This document updates those
ASN.1 modules to conform to the 2002 version of ASN.1.  There are no 
bits-on-the-wire changes to any of the formats; this is 
simply a change 
to the syntax.

A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-hoffman-cms-new-asn1-00.txt

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium