Re: CMP issue and question

[John_Wray@xxxxxxxx]

Mike Shanzer (Michael_Shanzer@iris.com) writes:

>In draft-ietf-pkix-ipki3cmp-08.txt the "Direct TCP Management
>Protocol" defines polling times to be an absolute time.
>I think it would be better to make it a relative time. Less
>time skew issues etc.

While the motivation for this is primarily to avoid clock-skew issues
(which we've already run into in our implementation), a further advantage
of using a delta-time rather than an absolute time for "next poll" is that
it would avoid the Y2038/2106 problem that the current definition has,
without requiring any more bits or complicated encodings.

John