Re: [Spasm] Updated draft-melnikov-spasm-eai-addresses

Hi Erik,

I actually advocated for exactly that, but pointed out it will require 
ITU-T cooperation. Is ITU-T willing to cooperate? :)

The other issue is that it will break software that was compiled with 
"pre-ellipsis technology". This likely includes most flavors of Windows 
up through and including Windows 10. It's also possible that software 
will choke but will return a successful partial decode of GeneralName 
productions prior to the [9] one, in which case, the proposal is doable 
as long as [9] is the last GeneralName. (Conveniently, it is likely that 
[9] will get sorted to the end in DER, which might save us.)

It would be good to do a comprehensive survey; I have not actually done 
any testing.

Regards,

Sean

On 7/8/2016 8:41 AM, Erik Andersen wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I wonder why you did not add a new component to the GeneralName data 
> type as shown below. Processing will be easier and you do not have to 
> defined a (long) IETF OID.
>
> GeneralName ::= CHOICE {
>
>   otherName                  [0]  INSTANCE OF OTHER-NAME,
>
>   rfc822Name                 [1]  IA5String,
>
>   dNSName                    [2]  IA5String,
>
>   x400Address                [3]  ORAddress,
>
>   directoryName              [4]  Name,
>
>   ediPartyName               [5]  EDIPartyName,
>
>   uniformResourceIdentifier  [6]  IA5String,
>
>   iPAddress                  [7]  OCTET STRING,
>
>   registeredID               [8]  OBJECT IDENTIFIER,
>
>   ...,
>
>    *smtputf8Name name          [9]  UTF8String (SIZE (1..MAX))*
>
> }
>
> Erik
>
> *Fra:*Spasm [mailto:spasm-bounces@ietf.org] *På vegne af *Wei Chuang
> *Sendt:* 08 July 2016 09:17
> *Til:* spasm@ietf.org
> *Emne:* [Spasm] Updated draft-melnikov-spasm-eai-addresses
>
> Hi all,
>
> This draft incorporates feedback about internationalization, unicode 
> and language updates.
>
> Your feedback is very much welcome.
>
> -Wei and Alexey
>
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> Date: Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 11:35 PM
> Subject: New Version Notification for 
> draft-melnikov-spasm-eai-addresses-03.txt
> To: Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@isode.com 
> <mailto:alexey.melnikov@isode.com>>, Weihaw Chuang <weihaw@google.com 
> <mailto:weihaw@google.com>>, Alexey Melnikov 
> <Alexey.Melnikov@isode.com <mailto:Alexey.Melnikov@isode.com>>
>
>
>
> A new version of I-D, draft-melnikov-spasm-eai-addresses-03.txt
> has been successfully submitted by Weihaw Chuang and posted to the
> IETF repository.
>
> Name:           draft-melnikov-spasm-eai-addresses
> Revision:       03
> Title:          Internationalized Email Addresses in X.509 certificates
> Document date:  2016-07-07
> Group:          Individual Submission
> Pages:          6
> URL: 
> https://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-melnikov-spasm-eai-addresses-03.txt
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> Diff: 
> https://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-melnikov-spasm-eai-addresses-03
>
> Abstract:
>    This document defines a new name form for inclusion in the otherName
>    field of an X.509 Subject Alternative Name extension that allows a
>    certificate subject to be associated with an Internationalized Email
>    Address.
>
>
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