Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-smime-x400wrap-00.txt

[Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@xxxxxxx>]

At 2:33 PM -0500 11/10/00, Bonatti, Chris wrote:
> Comment 11 asks for more specific references in PKIX.  I assumed that this
> referred to PKCS-10 and CRMF.

No, it refers to CMP and CMC. Aren't multiple protocols for doing the 
same thing fun? :-)

>   My feeling here is that we should be as
> non-specific as possible to avoid introducing any undesireably dependencies.

The wording does not include any dependencies at all. That was quite 
purposeful in the S/MIME spec from which we copied this text.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium