Question to <draft-ietf-pkix-time-stamp-12.txt>

Bernd Matthes <mainbug@celocom.de> Wed, 03 January 2001 15:10 UTC

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Hi!

I have a question to the following sentence 
from section 2.4.1. Request Format:

"The messageImprint field SHOULD contain the hash of the datum to be
time stamped."

What is the meaning of 'datum'?
Should it be 'data' instead of 'datum'?

Thanks for any comments.

with kind regards
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