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Re: registration authorities


At 6:45 PM +0100 12/30/04, Peter Sylvester wrote:
> >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. :-)

yes, it probably is!



      *  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.

I agree that the text says one can use the extension more broadly, and I agree that, therefore, IF one feels a need to name an RA in a cert, this is the standard way we have defined to do that, but I would still bet that folks who see an extension named qc-Statement will infer that its a qualified cert ...

Steve