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Re: [pkix] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC5280 (6414)

Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu> Thu, 28 January 2021 18:09 UTC

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Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2021 10:08:58 -0800
From: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>
To: Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org>
Cc: Russ Housley <housley@vigilsec.com>, Rob Stradling <rob@sectigo.com>, "Roman D. Danyliw" <rdd@cert.org>, Stephen Kent <kent@bbn.com>, IETF PKIX <pkix@ietf.org>, Stefan Santesson <stefan@aaa-sec.com>, David Cooper <david.cooper@nist.gov>, wpolk@nist.gov, Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie>
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Subject: Re: [pkix] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC5280 (6414)
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On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 09:34:51AM -0800, Paul Hoffman wrote:
> I propose that this erratum be rejected outright. It is clear that the 
> current text is unclear, particularly with the passage of time. The way 
> to correct that is with a new Internet Draft that updates 5280, with a 
> lot more words than just the limited space in the ASN.1 comment.

So, your stance is that the current text is unclear, which should be
remedied by a document update?  I'm not sure how that implies "rejected" as
opposed to "hold for document update"...

-Ben

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