Document Action: 'ASN.1 Translation' to Informational RFC
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The IESG has approved the following document: - 'ASN.1 Translation' <draft-ietf-pkix-asn1-translation-03.txt> as an Informational RFC This document is the product of the Public-Key Infrastructure (X.509) Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Tim Polk and Sean Turner. A URL of this Internet Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-pkix-asn1-translation/ Technical Summary This document is intended to provide guidance to specification authors and to implementers converting ASN.1 modules written using one version of ASN.1 to another version, without causing changes to the "bits on the wire". This document does not provide a comprehensive tutorial of any version of ASN.1. Instead, it addresses ASN.1 features that are used in IETF security area specifications with focus on items that vary between the two ASN.1 versions of interest (1988 and 2002). Working Group Summary The document was produced per working group request following debate focused on the draft-ietf-pkix-new-asn1 draft. Some working group members voiced concern that not all ASN.1 compilers currently in use support the 2002 syntax. The document aims to explain the differences between ASN.1 versions, allowing specification authors and implementers to target the desired version of ASN.1. Document Quality The document does not define a protocol, so there are no implementations per se. Steps described in the document are consistent with those used by the authors of draft-ietf-pkix-new-asn1 to migrate from older syntax to new syntax. Personnel Steve Kent is the Document Shepherd; Tim Polk is the Responsible Area Director.