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Re: Part1 last call comments



> From: Jean-Marc Desperrier <jean-marc.desperrier@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> This is not the date _at_ which the next revocation list will be issued, but
> _by_which the CRL is garanteed to have been issued.
> 
> This garantee covers the case where there's a problem and the
> issuance/propagation of the CRL is slightly delayed.


nextUpdate is the date _at_ which the next _scheduled_ CRL will be issued,
as opposed to unscheduled CRLs issued in response to, e.g., reported
key compromises.

X.509 says _by_ which in order not to preclude the issuance of
unscheduled CRLs.

I'm not going to quibble about whether a few wallclock minutes +/-
disqualifies a CRL from being issued "_at_" a specific time;  the
property of interest is that for a scheduled CRL, the "thisUpdate"
field exactly equals the "nextUpdate" field of the previous CRL in
the series.