RE: New Liaison Statement, "Liaison to IETF on the removal of upper bound in X.509"

"Kemp, David P." <DPKemp@missi.ncsc.mil> Fri, 12 October 2007 19:14 UTC

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From: "Kemp, David P." <DPKemp@missi.ncsc.mil>
To: Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org>
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>Paul Hoffman wrote:

>It has been established on this list that the upper bounds in X.500
>have been non-normative since the second edition.

You said that in an earlier message. Could you point us to a specific 
section of a specific version of X.500 where that is true? Most of us 
are not X.500 users.


---------- 1993 ---------
http://www.itu.int/rec/dologin_pub.asp?lang=e&id=T-REC-X.520-199311-S!!P
DF-E&type=items

ISO/IEC 9594-6 : 1995 (E)
22 ITU-T Rec. X.520 (1993 E) Superseded by a more recent version
Annex A
Selected attribute types in ASN.1
(This annex forms an integral part of this Recommendation |
International Standard)
This annex includes all of the ASN.1 type and value definitions
contained in this Directory Specification in the form of
the ASN.1 module SelectedAttributeTypes.


---------- 1997 ---------
http://www.itu.int/rec/dologin_pub.asp?lang=e&id=T-REC-X.520-199708-S!!P
DF-E&type=items
 
ISO/IEC 9594-6 : 1998 (E)
ITU-T Rec. X.520 (1997 E) 41
Annex C
Upper bounds
(This annex does not form an integral part of this Recommendation |
International Standard)
This annex includes all of the suggested upper bound value constraints
used in these Directory Specifications, in the form
of the ASN.1 module UpperBounds.

---------- 2001 ---------
http://www.itu.int/rec/dologin_pub.asp?lang=e&id=T-REC-X.520-200102-I!!P
DF-E&type=items

ISO/IEC 9594-6:2001 (E)
ITU-T X.520 (02/2001 E) 61
Annex C
Upper bounds
(This annex does not form an integral part of this Recommendation |
International Standard)
This annex includes all of the suggested upper bound value constraints
used in these Directory Specifications, in the
form of the ASN.1 module UpperBounds.

---------- 2005 ---------
http://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-X.520-200508-I/dologin.asp?lang=e&id=T-REC-
X.520-200508-I!!PDF-E&type=items

ISO/IEC 9594-6:2005 (E)
60 ITU-T Rec. X.520 (08/2005)
Annex C
Upper bounds
(This annex does not form an integral part of this Recommendation |
International Standard)
This annex includes all of the suggested upper bound value constraints
used in these Directory Specifications, in the form
of the ASN.1 module UpperBounds.