Thanks for the review Sean,
I comment your observations below. I have incorporated these changes in a new ID-01 which I will submit as soon as we have agreed on all issues.
Stefan Santesson Microsoft Security Center of Excellence (SCOE) ________________________________________
From: Sean P. Turner [mailto:turners@xxxxxxxx] Sent: den 8 november 2004 15:46
To: ietf-smime@xxxxxxx; Stefan Santesson
Subject: Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-smime-certcapa-00.txt
Stefan,
Here are my comments on the draft: 1. clause 1, I'd like to see something about why it's better to have it in the PKC than to just rely on the mechanism you used to get the recipient's certificate in the 1st place (you need get the certificate somehow).
[SS] This is the only one I don't understand. What mechanism to obtain the users certificate are u referring to?
If you obtain the certificate from a directory or some other database then there are no specified means of having a signed S/MIME attribute. If you obtain the certificate from a signed mail, then the capabilities in the signed mail should normally have preference, which is stated in section 3.
2. clause 1, I'd like to see something about this being the "static" solution and that dynamic solutions may be defined elsewhere.
[SS] OK, I have added that in the draft update.
3. clause 1, Last para, 1st sentence: r leverage/leverages.
[SS] Fixed in the update.
4. clause 2, 2nd para: r RFC 2633/3851.
[SS] Error corrected in update. I only refer to 3851 though since it obsoletes 2633.
5. clause 2, a "(the following is included for illustrative purposes only)" after following.
[SS] Fixed in update.
6. clause 2, We have to specify whether it's a critical or non-critical extension.
[SS] Fixed. Now says it MUST NOT be critical.
7. clause 2, last para: add period to end of sentence.
[SS] Fixed.
8. clause 4, Are we going to need a module OID for this extension :) I'm interested to see if using the same attribute/extension OID causes any compilers problems.
[SS] No we don't. I talked to Russ about that. And thus we don't need an ASN.1 section either. I have removed that from the updated ID.
9. clause 5: You need specify which references are normative/informative. spt
[SS] Done.
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Title : Certificate extension for S/MIME Capabilities Author(s) : S. Santesson Filename : draft-ietf-smime-certcapa-00.txt Pages : 5 Date : 2004-10-15 This document defines a certificate extension for inclusion of S/MIME capabilities in public key certificates defined by RFC 3280.
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