Re: [secdir] Secdir review of draft-ietf-pkix-rfc5280-clarifications-08

[Stephen Kent <[e-mail]>]

Alexey,

Thanks for noting that ambiguity re "control characters."

Peter: please adopt Alexey's suggested text in Section 3, in v-10.

> The explicitText string SHOULD NOT include any *Unicode* Control
> characters (i.e., U+0000 to U+001F and U+007F to U+009F)
>
> You should also consider whether you should reference RFC 5198 here 
> (which restricts the set even further).
The goal the text here was to allow BMP string, based on deployment 
experience. The clarification
you suggested is good, as it avoids ambiguity re what was said in 5280. 
Citing 5198 and
adopting a more restrictive character set is too big a change for this doc.
> Section 5 only talks about IDNA 2003. What about IDNA 2008?
We're not prepared to move to IDNA 2008, at this time. This is a 
clarifications doc that
updates 5280; the switch to IDNA 2008 would be too big a change for this 
doc.

Steve