Re: [IETF-PKIX] Comment on ESS and Privacy Marks

["David P. Kemp" <dpkemp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

For those who haven't been following the following discussion on the
S/MIME list, the "[0] IMPLICIT UTF8String" syntax would have similar
advantages wherever UTF8String is used in the next versions of
the Cert Profile and CMP.



> To: ietf-smime@imc.org
> From: jsp@jgvandyke.com (John Pawling)
>
> All,
>
> I agree with Bancroft Scott that ESSPrivacyMark should be re-defined as follows:
>
> > ESSPrivacyMark ::= CHOICE {
> >    pString      PrintableString (SIZE (1..ub-privacy-mark-length)),
> >    utf8String   [0] IMPLICIT UTF8String (SIZE (1..ub-privacy-mark-length))
> > }
>
>
> Note Bancroft's point as follows:
>
> >Another
> >benefit is that if someone is using a tool that does not support
> >UTF8String they can simply change it to "[0] OCTET STRING" and get the
> >same encoding.