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Re: [smime] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC5084 (4774)

Sean Leonard <dev+ietf@seantek.com> Sat, 13 August 2016 22:00 UTC

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From: Sean Leonard <dev+ietf@seantek.com>
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Subject: Re: [smime] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC5084 (4774)
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> On Aug 13, 2016, at 10:08 AM, Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> wrote:
> 
> On 13 Aug 2016, at 10:03, Jim Schaad wrote:
> 
>> The first half of this errata must be rejected.  We do not change the ASN.1
>> for something like this under just about any circumstances.
>> 
>> Changing the recommendation of a value should probably not be done by an
>> erratum but by publishing a new document.  We could make discuss and make
>> the recommendation change in the new S/MIME document in the LAMPS group
>> rather than in this document.
> 
> I fully agree with Jim on both counts.

I also agree with Jim.

Sean

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