Re: DER in ac509prof-03

["Phillip H. Griffin" <phil.griffin@xxxxxxxxx>]

Russ Housley wrote:
> 
> Yes.  The group was asked if anyone wanted to retain the ASN.1-1993
> Appendix, and no one cared enough to speak up.
> 
> Russ

Actually the PKIX1Explicit93 module is now referenced in an
IMPORTS statement in the FDIS version of ISO 15945 (also an
ITU-T proposed standard, but I can not find the mumble number
right now) Trusted Third Parties. 

This work includes versions of CRMF and OCSP whose syntax has
been corrected where necessary and rewritten using the current
ASN.1 standards. 

Phil


> At 04:38 PM 05/10/2000 +0100, Stephen Farrell wrote:
> 
> >Tom,
> >
> > >      The definition Phil referred to ("AttributeValue ::= ANY") should be
> > > changed to
> > > "AttributeValue ::= ANY DEFINED BY AttributeType", both here and in A.1 of
> > > son-of-2459.
> >
> >No problem. 2459 does it that way in the text, but not in
> >the ASN.1 module, which I guess must be where I copied it
> >from.
> >
> > > Since only SecurityCategory, among the structures specific to
> > > AC509Prof, actually uses any old-fashioned formats, it would be better
> > > either to include documentation of the 1993 format in the draft (as in 2459
> > > and son-of-2459) or to change it to be compatible with INSTANCE OF.
> >
> >Wasn't there consensus among the folks in Adelaide to expunge the '93
> >ASN.1 from son-of-2459. I'm happy to follow whatever happens there,
> >though I can't remember if this has come up on the list.
> >
> > > Including documentation of the 1993 format would not break existing
> > > implementations (if there are any),
> >
> >There are.
> >
> >Regards,
> >Stephen.
> >
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