Re: PKIX-3 Extensibility

["Charles Moore" <cmoore@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 This meets  my original posted change  requirements as well.

-----Original Message-----
From: Russ Housley <housley@spyrus.com>
To: ietf-pkix@tandem.com <ietf-pkix@tandem.com>
Date: Friday, 12 September 1997 11:14
Subject: PKIX-3 Extensibility



>I think that there are messages that are specific to particular
>environments, and I cannot find a place for such messages in PKIX-3.  For
>example, a particular community might use hardware tokens, and they might
>need messages to transfer PINs associated with those tokens.  I am sure
>that there are many, many more such examples.  The PKIX working group
>cannot add a message type for every environment. Yet, the current CHOICE is
>hopeless for extensibility.
>
>I propose that an additional  branch be added to the CHOICE.  The
>additional branch would be:
>
> other [48] SEQUENCE {
> oid OBJECT IDENTIFIER,
> value ANY DEFINED BY oid  }
>
>In this way, particular communities can extend PKIX-3 to handle their
>specific needs without having to annoy the working group to add brances to
>the choice that are usefult to a small set of users.
>
>Russ