Re: Character sets in PKIX and X.509 (RE: [IETF-PKIX] Objections to IPKI3CMP charset handling)

[Bancroft Scott <baos@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Peter Whittaker wrote:

> Harald's post lead to a debate and exchange of information, mostly
> off-line, that came to involve Bancroft Scott, the ISO ASN.1 Rapporteur
> (chair of the ASN.1 WG), Hoyt Kesterson, the ISO X.500 Rapporteur,
> Harald, Phillip Griffin, Carlisle Adams, and others.

I am the editor, not the Rapporteur, but am certain that John
Larmouth, the Rapporteur, entirely agrees with me on this issue.
 
> One issue that has been raised about the use of UTF8String is the
> question of what level of ASN.1 support it requires ('88, '94, '9x with
> x > 4, '2x?), and how it affects current ASN.1 compilers.   UTF8String
> may be the right thing to do, but may pose challenges in this area
> (compounding the problem of widespread use of ASN.1 1988 throughout IETF
> work, despite the superiority and clarity of ASN.1 1994).
> 
> Thoughts, comments, objections?

I am for the use of ASN.1:1998 which has been approved of ISO and is
being voted on this week by ITU-T with almost certainty that it will pass
since there has not been even a single objection to ASN.1:1998 which is
basically a merge of ASN.1:1994 with the corrigenda and amendments issued
since 1994, plus addition of UTF8String.

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