Re: [dane] On the PKIX-TA / PKIX-CA question? [ One week WGLC ]

James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com> Mon, 09 December 2013 21:56 UTC

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Subject: Re: [dane] On the PKIX-TA / PKIX-CA question? [ One week WGLC ]
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Since I've posted wrt this draft, I feel compelled to add that I
encouraged symmetry, iff names are used, because I do not expect
that anyone will remember them otherwise.

With emphasis on "iff".

There is no value in names if one has to look them up; in that
case numbers are at least as useful.

-JimC
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