Re: RFC 3280 and multiple Organization (O) fields in DN

[pgut001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Peter Gutmann)]

Russ Housley <housley@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>Early versions of the CCITT (wkich is now called ITU-T) included an
>informative state machine about name construction.

"Informative"?  I've always used that state machine as an example of the fact
that even the standards authors had no idea how a DN should be arranged.  So I
guess it is informative, but it's conveying an entirely different message than
was originally intended.

Peter.