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Re: [certid] Need to define "most specific RDN"

Shumon Huque <shuque@isc.upenn.edu> Tue, 20 July 2010 04:13 UTC

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From: Shumon Huque <shuque@isc.upenn.edu>
To: Martin Rex <mrex@sap.com>
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Subject: Re: [certid] Need to define "most specific RDN"
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On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 06:57:50PM +0200, Martin Rex wrote:
> [...]
> But frankly, I do no see much value in trying to describe all possible
> interpretation of a fairly vague wording, that itself was an attempt
> to characterize, NOT specify, what kind of behaviour there is in the
> installed base.  Leaving the vague description of rfc-2818 as is,
> and pointing out more prominently that it is really deprecated
> should be perfectly sufficient.
> 
> -Martin

I'm in full agreement.

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Shumon Huque
University of Pennsylvania.

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