Re: registration authorities

[Peter Sylvester <Peter.Sylvester@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> >Doesn't 3739 say:
> >
> >    The profile is however not limited to Qualified
> >    Certificates and further profiling may facilitate specific local
> >    needs.
> 
> yes, but what i said was that syntactically, inclusion of the 
> extension defined for QC's will generally be interpreted as 
> indicating a QC. In the U.S. we have a saying:
>    "If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it's probably a duck."
> 
No, it is a video game. :-) 


      *  Some editorial clarifications have been made to introductory
         sections to clarify that this profile is generally applicable
         to a broad type of certificates, even if its prime purpose is
         to facilitate issuance of Qualified Certificates.


> I think this saying will apply here, whether the cert was issued 
> under QC guidelines or not.

I tend to interprete the phrases as a warning to indicate exactly the
contrary.