RE: Qualified Certificates and the 43:d IETF Meeting

[Russ Housley <housley@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Nick & Stefan:

>>2)The standard attribute dnQualifier could be used instead of serialNumber
>>(Th attribute "serialNumber is defined in RFC 2256 as being the serial
>>number of a device).
>>
>
>Yes, the SN is not in complete harmony regarding its definition and its
>use. However several other standardisation proposal has choosen SN for
>personal identifiers. The rationale behind that choice have been that most
>applications support and displays this attribute in a correct way.
>
>Is there an installed base using "dnQualifier" ?

We include support of dnQualifier.

I strongly prefer dnQualifier over serialNumber.

Russ