Re: [sidr] revising Section 7.2 of RFC 6487

Stephen Kent <kent@bbn.com> Tue, 28 June 2016 17:39 UTC

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Subject: Re: [sidr] revising Section 7.2 of RFC 6487
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Geoff,

Thanks for reviewing the text.

I modified the text to change "current VRS-IP" to be "... the value of 
the VRS-IP computed for certificate x-1" as per your suggestion. I also 
made this change for the corresponding VRS-AS text.

I don't think we need to add a note about validation being performed 
"top down" since bullet B already says: "certificate '1' is a trust anchor"

Steve
> FWIW, I like this formulation Steve.
>
> Possibly when you refer to "the current value of the VRS-IP” you may want to explicitly refer to the VRS-IP of certificate x-1 rather than “current”.
>
> I also wonder if it is worth noting that the enumerated steps outlined here are intended to be performed “top down” - i.e. from a trust anchor to the certificate to be validated.
>
> regards,
>
>    Geoff
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