Re: Last Call summary for draft-ietf-pkix-cert-utf8

[Russ Housley <[e-mail]>]

Denis:

Jim is raising a concern that the SHOULD NOT in your proposed text 
cannot be tested.  What would you say in an interoperability report 
to state conformance.  I belive that Jim is advocating something like:

   Two different subject names might appear (using the same font or
   different fonts) to have the same or close visual representations, thus
   before assigning a subject name to an entity, a CA ought to make an
   effort to avoid assigning a new subject a name that has the same or a
   similar visual representation to names that it has already assigned
   to other certificate subjects.

Russ


At 12:58 PM 4/12/2006, Denis Pinkas wrote:
> >If you want to have a SHALL NOT or a SHOULD NOT in this statement, please
> >provide me an algorithm that I can give to a CA to do this enforcement.
>
>It was stated at the IETF in Paris that there was no perfect solution
>to this problem.
>
>Sam said that there is no consensus to make a specific recommendation
>for mitigating this risk. I agree. Hence, we are not going to provide
>any algorithm. The way to solve this issue is the problem of the CA.
>The requirement remains.