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Re: [certid] version -11

Matt McCutchen <matt@mattmccutchen.net> Tue, 30 November 2010 03:19 UTC

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To: Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im>
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On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 16:31 -0700, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
>    Finally, although theoretically some consider the order of AVAs
>    within an RDN to have meaning, in practice that rule is not observed.
>    An AVA of type CN to be valid at any position within the subject
>    field.

The last sentence is missing a verb.

Also, I don't see how AVAs within an RDN could ever have a meaningful
order.  The RDN is a "SET OF" AVAs, i.e., unordered.  The encoding order
is not significant; in fact, it is fixed by DER.

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Matt

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