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Re: CA Names

1994-02-01 18:40:00
Russ:

I find many parts of your suggestion attractive, but we must find a 
way to
implement it without using a new attribute as part of the 
distinquished name.

Could you please expand on your strong opposition to the new attribute 
proposal.  X.500 was designed with a goal of straightforward 
extensibility re adding attributes and, as I understand it, this has 
been achieved with respect to chaining DSAs.  There is certainly an 
impact on DUAs which need to recognize the attributes, but it is not 
obvious to me that we have a real problem in the CA-name case.  Is your 
concern something fundamental with X.500, or is it that some particular 
implementation(s) might break?

...Warwick Ford              

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