RFC 6818 on Updates to the Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate and Certificate Revocation List (CRL) Profile

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        RFC 6818

        Title:      Updates to the Internet X.509 
                    Public Key Infrastructure Certificate and Certificate 
                    Revocation List (CRL) Profile 
        Author:     P. Yee
        Status:     Standards Track
        Stream:     IETF
        Date:       January 2013
        Mailbox:    peter@akayla.com
        Pages:      8
        Characters: 17439
        Updates:    RFC5280

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-pkix-rfc5280-clarifications-11.txt

        URL:        http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6818.txt

This document updates RFC 5280, the "Internet X.509 Public 
Key Infrastructure Certificate and Certificate Revocation List 
(CRL) Profile".  This document changes the set of acceptable encoding
methods for the explicitText field of the user notice policy
qualifier and clarifies the rules for converting internationalized
domain name labels to ASCII.  This document also provides some
clarifications on the use of self-signed certificates, trust anchors,
and some updated security considerations.  [STANDARDS-TRACK]

This document is a product of the Public-Key Infrastructure (X.509) Working Group of the IETF.

This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.

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