Re: X.509 certificate and its subject name field

["Shyh-Wei Luan" <luan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On May 28, 11:34am, Nick Pope wrote:

> One solution is to use a national ID scheme.  In the UK all employed
> people are given a National Insurance number which is unqiue to them
> and doesn't change over their lifetime.  There may
> be however some privacy questions with such a scheme
>
> Nick Pope

I am not proposing a global (or national) ID scheme.  I am proposing a
unique ID (over time), in lieu of a unique name, WITHIN the scope of each CA.
This will save the potentially daunting task of changing all the ACL's in
the case of name changes or reuses.

In my vision, a CA may be a Department of Motor Vehicle of some state, where
the
UID may be the driver license number, or a CA may be the Department of Commerce
of a country, where a UID may be some kind of a business registration ID's.
The operation of the automated world will naturally and gradully mirror that of
the real world.

Shyh-Wei Luan