draft-turner-deviceowner-attribute last call comment
Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> Mon, 03 August 2009 19:41 UTC
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Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:03:34 +0100
From: Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie>
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Subject: draft-turner-deviceowner-attribute last call comment
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Hi Sean, It seems odd to me that the only options for naming a device owner are to use a country code or an OID that might represent a group of countries (or something else). Either this draft is only referring to some very special devices or else its missing *much* more natural identifiers for device owners, e.g. DNS names, email addresses etc. So I think either change the ASN.1 (perhaps to include a GeneralName in the choice) or else change the text to say which kind(s) of device tend to be owned by countries or groups of countries so that readers of the resulting RFC have some kind of clue as to what the document is really about. I guess I'd prefer the former option, but since this is going to be informational am fine with the latter so long as its clear about the kind(s) of device to which the putative RFC is meant to apply. Cheers, Stephen.
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