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Re: New I-D on Intl Strings in Certs


Many thanks to Steve and Paul for generating this document.

I would like to see an additional section in this document. When otherName forms are registered, some of these will in include text strings. However, they will probably not make use of GeneralName or Name. Therefore, I think it would be useful to list the ASN.1 types where these rules should be applied. UTF8String is obvious. What esle?

Russ

At 08:39 AM 7/12/2004, Steve Hanna wrote:

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