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Re: consisten use of top-level oid branch name joint-iso-itu-t(2)

2008-12-22 12:02:50

At 3:48 PM +0000 12/22/08, John Larmouth wrote:
However, the recent introduction of Unicode labels, as normative and 
unambigous names gives a new naming scheme to the (same) OID tree that enables 
names (Unicode labels) to be used in machine communication if desired. 

Note that this scheme has not been adopted by PKIX nor S/MIME, nor has it even 
been proposed to either of the working groups.

The ASN.1 type is called OID_IRI and provides for node identification using 
Unicode labels.

Paging Peter Gutmann....

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