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

"Paul Hoffman" <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> Sat, 13 August 2016 17:08 UTC

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

--Paul Hoffman

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