RE: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-pkix-sha2-dsa-ecdsa-00.txt

["Turner, Sean P." <turners@xxxxxxxx>]

A couple of comments:

General: What is the relationship of this and the ECC PKALGS ID? Is the text
that is common going to be removed? Is the other ID dead (it has expired but
it's not clear that it won't be resurrected)? Is another draft being
prepared for the Key Agreement Schemes? 

Keys/Parameters: The document only addresses the
signatureAlgorithm/signatureVale/signature fields and points to RFC3279 for
the ECDSA Public Key Encodings...but it seems like there ought to be an
explicit indication of the algorithm the key can be used with in the
subjectPublicKeyInfo field along with its parameters? They do this with
DSA/RSA why not with ECDSA?

Specific
Sec 3 1st para last sentence: r field/fields
Sec 3 4th para last sentence: r should/SHOULD
Sec 3.1 1st para 2nd sentence r SHA2/SHA-2
Sec 3.2 bullets 1, 2, 3: r may/MAY
Sec 3.2.1 1st para: r SHA 512/SHA512

spt
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Subject: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-pkix-sha2-dsa-ecdsa-00.txt 

A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
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This draft is a work item of the Public-Key Infrastructure (X.509) Working
Group of the IETF.

	Title		: Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure: 
                          Additional Algorithms and Identifiers for DSA and
ECDSA  
	Author(s)	: Q. Dang, et al.
	Filename	: draft-ietf-pkix-sha2-dsa-ecdsa-00.txt
	Pages		: 
	Date		: 2006-6-19
	
        This document supplements RFC 3279. It 
        specifies algorithm identifiers, and ASN.1 
        encoding rules for the Digital Signature 
        Algorithm (DSA) and Elliptic Curve Digital 
        Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) digital signatures 
        when using SHA-224, SHA-256, 384 or SHA-512 as 
        hashing algorithm. This specification applies 
        to the Internet X.509 Public Key 
        Infrastructure (PKI) when digital signatures 
        are used to sign certificates and certificate 
        revocation list (CRLs).  

        The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", 
        "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", 
        "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this 
        document are to be interpreted as described in 
        [RFC 2119]. 


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