New I-D on Intl Strings in Certs

[Steve Hanna <Steve.Hanna@xxxxxxx>]

Among the recent flurry of Internet Draft
announcements was the one below. This is
the long-promised document by Paul Hoffman
and myself on how to handle Unicode and
other international strings in certificates.

Please review the document, considering
especially the open issues highlighted
therein. We will lead a discussion on
these topics at IETF 60, but it would be
great to get an email discussion going
first.

We have coordinated with the ISO, ldapbis,
and idn folks on this effort. We want to
make sure all our documents are compatible
so that you can use the same techniques
(and the same code) for comparing X.500
names with all these standards. That's why
this document is fairly small, pointing
people to the ldapbis specs for details.

So please review this document and send
comments to the PKIX list.

Thanks,

Steve

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: I-D ACTION:draft-hoffman-pkix-stringmatch-00.txt
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 15:26:26 -0400
From: Internet-Drafts@xxxxxxxx
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To: i-d-announce@xxxxxxxx

A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts 
directories.


	Title		: Matching Text Strings in PKIX Certificates
	Author(s)	: P. Hoffman, S. Hanna
	Filename	: draft-hoffman-pkix-stringmatch-00.txt
	Pages		: 0
	Date		: 2004-7-9
	
Strings of text appear in many fields in PKIX certificates. Some
applications need to compare the values in these fields to strings
from other certificates, or to values obtained in other manners.
For many string encodings, this can be done in an octet-by-octet
fashion. Other encodings, however, require preparation before the
strings can be compared. This document describes that preparation
and when it needs to be applied.

A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-hoffman-pkix-stringmatch-00.txt

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