Re: [lamps] Fixed the RFC 8994 / ACP Subject Alternative Name example - Re: struggling with CSRAttrs

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Wed, 28 September 2022 15:55 UTC

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Subject: Re: [lamps] Fixed the RFC 8994 / ACP Subject Alternative Name example - Re: struggling with CSRAttrs
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David von Oheimb <David.von.Oheimb@siemens.com> wrote:
    > Side note: Now I wonder why the rather uncommon and cumbersome
    > otherName choice has been taken for ACP.  Looks like implementation
    > support for otherNames is not the best.  Since an IA5String should be
    > used for ACP that looks like an email address, one might have chosen
    > instead the simpler and well supported GeneralName choice 'rfc822name':

Well, Toerless argued for years to use rfc822Name, and we had running code,
but there were objections to this, so at the last minute RFC8994 moved to
otherName.  The running code is still catching up.

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