[pkix] [Errata Held for Document Update] RFC3779 (7653)

RFC Errata System <rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org> Fri, 12 January 2024 20:44 UTC

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Subject: [pkix] [Errata Held for Document Update] RFC3779 (7653)
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The following errata report has been held for document update
for RFC3779, "X.509 Extensions for IP Addresses and AS Identifiers".

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You may review the report below and at:
https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/eid7653

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Status: Held for Document Update
Type: Technical

Reported by: Job Snijders <job@fastly.com>
Date Reported: 2023-09-22
Held by: Paul Wouters (IESG)

Section: 3.2.3

Original Text
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Section 3.2.3.8:
The ASRange type is a SEQUENCE consisting of a min and a max element,
and is used to specify a range of AS identifier values.

Corrected Text
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Section 3.2.3.8:
The ASRange type is a SEQUENCE consisting of a min and a max element,
and is used to specify a range of AS identifier values. The min and max
elements MUST specify two distinct AS identifiers.

Notes
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The introduction in section 1 stresses that the objective of the encoding rules in section 2 and section 3
is to produce unique encoding and minimal size encoding of the information.

Allowing ASRanges where the minimum value is the same as the maximum value clearly violates the
objective of specifying a canonical form (in order to produce a unique representation); however the
specification as-is doesn't forbid min & max to be the same value. The corrected text addresses this.

Note: erratum edited per https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/pkix/iZnCd58xgl1C47GSeFemAU9CF1g/

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RFC3779 (draft-ietf-pkix-x509-ipaddr-as-extn-03)
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Title : X.509 Extensions for IP Addresses and AS Identifiers
Publication Date : June 2004
Author(s) : C. Lynn, S. Kent, K. Seo
Category : PROPOSED STANDARD
Source : Public-Key Infrastructure (X.509)
Area : Security
Stream : IETF
Verifying Party : IESG

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