It is not fair to abuse new authors for following long-standing PKIX and S/MIME WG convention. These WGs have chosen to use the 1988 ASN.1 syntax because there are free tools that support it. If you have information about freeware tools that support the later syntax, please let us know.
Russ At 02:53 AM 5/26/2005, Olivier Dubuisson wrote:
Why redefine the UTF8String instead of using the one standardized in the ASN.1 standard?