Re: draft delta crl text

["Housley, Russ" <rhousley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Denis:

AAs do not appear in Figure 1.  So, I think the text is okay, since it is 
explaining the figure.  AAs may also delegate the issuance of CRLs to a CRL 
issuer.

Russ


At 06:47 PM 6/1/2001 +0200, Denis Pinkas wrote:

> Tim,
>
> (snip)
>
> > 3.  In section 3, we introduce the "CRL issuer" in an enhanced version of
> > the ASCII art model of a pKI (figure 1.)
>
> I like the term "CRL Issuer".
>
> However, how should we call an entity that issues ACRLs ?
>
> Is it a "CRL Issuer" ?
>
> If we take the definition under figure 1 which is:
>
>    CRL issuer:  an optional system to which a CA delegates the
>                 publication of certificate revocation lists;
>
> then we have a problem because ACRLs are not issued by CAs, but by AAs.
>
>
> Denis