Re: draft-housley-binarytime-00.txt

[Russ Housley <housley@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter:

Again, you have focused on the signing -time attribute, not other possible 
uses for BnaryTime.

Russ


> > >    Third, date comparison is very easy with BinaryTime.  Integer
> > >    comparison is easy, even when multi-precision integers are involved.
> > >    Date comparison with UTCTime or GeneralizedTime can be complex when
> > >    the two values to be compared are provided in different time zones.
> > >
> > >There are no time zones involved in the signingTime attribute.
> > >One change in RFC 3369 vs 2630 to uppercase the MUST.
> >
> > Signing-time is not the only possible use of BinaryTime.  It is the one
> > specified in the document.  However, if the ASN.1 type is useful, then it
> > will start appearing in other places.  This would be an indication that 
> the
> > Experimental RFC is useful.
>
> You don't address what I have said. You indicate that time zone
> comparisons are difficult, but they do not even occur within the
> existing signingTime attribute.