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Re: Small typo in UPN text?

Hi,

At 12:41 PM 2/27/2000 -0800, Doug Royer wrote:

In:

2.5.1. UPNs and Certificates


   Note: If a server is validating data received via iMIP, if the
   "ORGANIZER" or "ATTENDEE" property said (e.g.) "ATTENDEE;CN=Joe Random
   :juser@xxxxxxxxxxx" then the "juser@xxxxxxxxxxx" part should be
   checked against the altSubjectName field of the certificate, and the
   "Joe Random User" part should be checked against the CN component of
   the altSubjectName DN. This is so the "ATTENDEE" property couldn't be
   munged to something misleading like "ATTENDEE;CN=Joe Rictus
   juser@xxxxxxxxxxx" and have it pass validation. This validation
   will also defeat other attempts at confusion.

Had the ATTENDEE line had "User:" in the ATTENDEE lines:

"ATTENDEE;CN=Joe Random:User:juser@xxxxxxxxxxx"

Actually the typo is in "Joe Random:User:" it should have been "Joe Random User:", in retrospect this is confusing since "User" is also a key word. I'll change the examples in this section and others where the same problem occurs.


"User:Joe Random User"


As "User:" is not part of ATTENDEE, I assumed that was a typo and
I removed "User:".

-Doug