Re: New Liaison Statement, "Liaison to IETF on the removal of upper bound in X.509"

[David Chadwick <d.w.chadwick@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi David

It is written at the start of Annex C of X.521, as copied below


> Annex C
>
> Upper bounds
> (This annex does not form an integral part of this Recommendation | International Standard)
> This annex includes all of the suggested upper bound value constraints used in these Directory Specifications, in the form of the ASN.1 module UpperBounds.
>
> UpperBounds {joint-iso-itu-t ds(5) module(1) upperBounds(10) 5}
> DEFINITIONS ::=
> BEGIN


regards

David



Kemp, David P. wrote:
> > Paul Hoffman wrote:
>
> > It has been established on this list that the upper bounds in X.500
> > have been non-normative since the second edition.
>
> You said that in an earlier message. Could you point us to a specific 
> section of a specific version of X.500 where that is true? Most of us 
> are not X.500 users.
>
>
> ---------- 1993 ---------
> http://www.itu.int/rec/dologin_pub.asp?lang=e&id=T-REC-X.520-199311-S!!P
> DF-E&type=items
>
> ISO/IEC 9594-6 : 1995 (E)
> 22 ITU-T Rec. X.520 (1993 E) Superseded by a more recent version
> Annex A
> Selected attribute types in ASN.1
> (This annex forms an integral part of this Recommendation |
> International Standard)
> This annex includes all of the ASN.1 type and value definitions
> contained in this Directory Specification in the form of
> the ASN.1 module SelectedAttributeTypes.
>
>
> ---------- 1997 ---------
> http://www.itu.int/rec/dologin_pub.asp?lang=e&id=T-REC-X.520-199708-S!!P
> DF-E&type=items
>  
> ISO/IEC 9594-6 : 1998 (E)
> ITU-T Rec. X.520 (1997 E) 41
> Annex C
> Upper bounds
> (This annex does not form an integral part of this Recommendation |
> International Standard)
> This annex includes all of the suggested upper bound value constraints
> used in these Directory Specifications, in the form
> of the ASN.1 module UpperBounds.
>
> ---------- 2001 ---------
> http://www.itu.int/rec/dologin_pub.asp?lang=e&id=T-REC-X.520-200102-I!!P
> DF-E&type=items
>
> ISO/IEC 9594-6:2001 (E)
> ITU-T X.520 (02/2001 E) 61
> Annex C
> Upper bounds
> (This annex does not form an integral part of this Recommendation |
> International Standard)
> This annex includes all of the suggested upper bound value constraints
> used in these Directory Specifications, in the
> form of the ASN.1 module UpperBounds.
>
> ---------- 2005 ---------
> http://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-X.520-200508-I/dologin.asp?lang=e&id=T-REC-
> X.520-200508-I!!PDF-E&type=items
>
> ISO/IEC 9594-6:2005 (E)
> 60 ITU-T Rec. X.520 (08/2005)
> Annex C
> Upper bounds
> (This annex does not form an integral part of this Recommendation |
> International Standard)
> This annex includes all of the suggested upper bound value constraints
> used in these Directory Specifications, in the form
> of the ASN.1 module UpperBounds.

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