[lamps] Re: [Technical Errata Reported] RFC10031 (9137)

Russ Housley <housley@vigilsec.com> Tue, 18 August 2026 17:18 UTC

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Subject: [lamps] Re: [Technical Errata Reported] RFC10031 (9137)
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RFC Editor:

Sadly, this is correct.  Please approve it.

Russ

> On Aug 17, 2026, at 1:00 PM, rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org wrote:
> 
> The following errata report has been submitted for RFC10031,
> "Media Access Control (MAC) Addresses in X.509 Certificates"
> 
> --------------------------------------
> You may review the report below and at:
> https://errata.rfc-editor.org/eid9137/
> 
> --------------------------------------
> Type: Technical
> Reported by: Paul Aitken <paitken@ciena.com>
> 
> Section 3.2 says:
> 
> Original Text
> -------------
> For example, a constraint that specifies that the acceptable names must all be within an
> Organizationally Unique Identifier (OUI) of '00-00-5e' for an EUI-48 address would have
> a value part of '00005E000000'H, a mask part of 'FFFFFFFF000000'H, and would be
> encoded as OCTET STRING '00005E000000FFFFFF000000'H.
> 
> Corrected Text
> --------------
> For example, a constraint that specifies that the acceptable names must all be within an
> Organizationally Unique Identifier (OUI) of '00-00-5e' for an EUI-48 address would have
> a value part of '00005E000000'H, a mask part of 'FFFFFF000000'H, and would be
> encoded as OCTET STRING '00005E000000FFFFFF000000'H.
> 
> Notes
> -----
> The mask contains one too many octets (seven rather than six). There are too many FF's.
> 
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> --------------------------------------
> RFC10031 (draft-ietf-lamps-macaddress-on)
> --------------------------------------
> Title               : Media Access Control (MAC) Addresses in X.509 Certificates
> Publication Date    : August 2026
> Author(s)           : R. Housley, C. Bonnell, J. Mandel, T. Okubo, M. StJohns
> Category            : Proposed Standard
> Source              : lamps (sec)
> Stream              : IETF
> Verifying Party     : IESG
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