Re: REVISED Last Call: draft-turner-asymmetrickeyformat

[Alfred Hönes <[e-mail]>]

At Thu, 4 Mar 2010 15:36:03 -0700, Cullen Jennings wrote:

> I was just looking at this draft and thinking about the IANA
> registration for the application/pkcs8 media type.  Right now that
> registration is in draft-ietf-sip-certs draft which this draft
> references.  When you think about it for a minute, it make no sense to
> define that mime type in a SIP draft.  It really should be in this
> draft-turner-asymmetrickeyformat draft.  I only got put in the
> sip-certs draft because it was not defined anywhere else when the
> sip-certs text was written.
>
> I'm think we should move the media registration from sip-certs to this
> draft and drop the reference.  This put it in the right place, will
> make it easier for others to find it, and will avoid any weird
> circular dependencies or strangeness as things move up the standards
> ladder.
>
> Specifically I think we should remove the reference to RFCTBD3 and
> move the following text from sip-certs into
> draft-turner-asymmetrickeyformat so that section 7 becomes
> ...

Cullen,
that makes perfect sense!

I already wondered about this unusual constellation when reviewing
the asymmetrickeyformat draft before LC.
And of course, I support going ahead with this one, after this addition.

Please also note that draft-turner-application-pkcs10-media-type-01
also is in the pipeline already.  That one 'heals' a gap that has
been caused by obsoleting old RFCs without carrying over all content
to more current specs.

However, ...
Sean, please follow the spirit of BCP 13, RFC 4288, and use the
updated registration template from that RFC; in particular drop the
use of "mime type" or "MIME media type" in favor of the more general
"media type".  Thanks!

Kind regards,
  Alfred.

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