Re: [IETF-PKIX] RFC 822 names in SubjectAltName and other extensions

[Paul Hoffman / IMC <paulh@xxxxxxx>]

At 09:16 PM 2/28/98 -0800, you wrote:
>> When an RFC822 name is encoded in SubjectAltName (or one of its
>> equivalents), is a display name allowed as well as the base address?
>> So can I encode "Jim Schaad [jimsch@microsoft.com]", or can I just
>> encode jimsch@microsoft.com?

Note that your example should be:
     Jim Schaad <jimsch@microsoft.com>
With <> instead of [].

Since the rfc822Namein SubjectAltName is expressed as an IA5String, I would
hope that any mailbox syntax that used only the IA5String character set
would be acceptable. And, since all valid 822 addresses must be in the
ASCII character set, this should include all three acceptable formats:
     jimsch@microsoft.com
     Jim Schaad <jimsch@microsoft.com>
     jimsch@microsoft.com (Jim Schaad)


--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium