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

Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> Thu, 13 April 2006 19:49 UTC

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Ditto.

Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote:
> Looks good to me. 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-ietf-pkix@mail.imc.org 
>> [mailto:owner-ietf-pkix@mail.imc.org] On Behalf Of Michael Myers
>> Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 2:04 PM
>> To: Russ Housley; Ted Hardie
>> Cc: iesg@ietf.org; ietf-pkix@imc.org
>> Subject: RE: Last Call summary for draft-ietf-pkix-cert-utf8
>>
>>
>> works for me
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Russ Housley
>> Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 8:11 AM
>>
>>
>> Ted:
>>
>> Thanks for the improved text.  Here it is all put together:
>>
>> When strings are mapped from internal representations to 
>> visual representations, sometimes two different strings will 
>> have the same or similar visual representations. This can 
>> happen for many different reasons, including use of similar 
>> glyphs and use of composed characters (such as e + ' equaling 
>> U+00E9, the Korean composed characters, and vowels above 
>> consonant clusters in certain languages).  As a result of 
>> this situation, people doing visual comparisons between two 
>> different names may think they are the same when in fact they 
>> are not.  Also, people may mistake one string for another.  
>> Issuers of certificates and relying parties both need to be 
>> aware of this situation.
>>
>> This does not impose any untestable requirements.  Any 
>> concerns with this text?
>>
>> Russ
>>
>>
>>
>>

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