Peter Sylvester wrote:
Section 3.2.3 now has reintroduced the 'prospective' certification path. I think that we had understood that either this term borrowed from 3280 only means an arbitrary sequence of n certificates and that is not exactly what is desired here.
Peter,The paragraph that you are referring to in section 3.2.3 is discussing the use of the path building wantBacks (id-stc-build-pkc-path and id-stc-build-aa-path), which are described in section 3.2.2 as follows:
- id-stc-build-pkc-path: Build a prospective certification path to a
trust anchor (as defined in section 6.1 of [PKIX-1]);
- id-stc-build-aa-path: Build a prospective certification path to a
trust anchor for the AC issuer;
The description of id-stc-build-pkc-path has been unchanged since draft
18 and the description of id-stc-build-aa-path has been unchanged since
draft 24.
Dave