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Re: New directions (was: Re; FYI)

1994-02-23 20:35:00
On Wed, 23 Feb 1994, Brad Huntting wrote:

    C=US, O=Internet, OU=com, OU=gte, CN=jueneman(p)wotan

And if it was simply:

      O=Internet, OU=com, OU=gte, CN=jueneman(p)wotan

Then it would easily reversable too.

True.  I was mainly trying to be nice by pulling out the country name 
in all the non-US cases, and wanted to be consistent with the handling of 
the US domains as well.  An equally reversible mapping would be obtained 
by using "C=??, O=Internet" for all 2 letter top level domain names 
(including "us") and just "O=Internet" for the others.

Also, maybe the domainComponent attribute that Christian mentioned 
should be used instead of OU.  I was aware of that work, but since it is 
labelled "pilot" I thought it only had experimental status and was 
hesitant to make use of it.  I'm easy on this point: others can debate
which is the best OID to use.

If the WG wants me to write this up more formally as a draft (or if 
someone else wants to do it) then just holler.

Cheers,

Rhys.



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