Re: [lamps] Spencer Dawkins' No Objection on draft-ietf-lamps-rfc5280-i18n-update-03: (with COMMENT)

Russ Housley <housley@vigilsec.com> Fri, 06 October 2017 14:11 UTC

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From: Russ Housley <housley@vigilsec.com>
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Subject: Re: [lamps] Spencer Dawkins' No Objection on draft-ietf-lamps-rfc5280-i18n-update-03: (with COMMENT)
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Spencer:

Two things are going on in this document:

(1)  This update aligns with IDNA2008.

(2)  Add support for EAI.

So, it might be better to say:

   These updates to RFC 5280 provide alignment with the 2008 specification
   for Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) and add support for
   Internationalized Email Addresses in X.509 Certificates.

Russ


> On Oct 5, 2017, at 9:46 PM, Spencer Dawkins <spencerdawkins.ietf@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Spencer Dawkins has entered the following ballot position for
> draft-ietf-lamps-rfc5280-i18n-update-03: No Objection
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> COMMENT:
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> You folks would know best what's actually clear to your intended audience, but
> the use of  "provide clarity on the handling of" in the Abstract,
> 
>   These updates to RFC 5280 provide clarity on the handling of
>   Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) and Internationalized Email
>   Addresses in X.509 Certificates.
> 
> and in the first paragraph of the Introduction,
> 
>   This document updates RFC 5280 [RFC5280].  The Introduction in
>   Section 1, the Name Constraints certificate extension discussion in
>   Section 4.2.1.10, and the Processing Rules for Internationalized
>   Names in Section 7 are updated to provide clarity on the handling of
>   Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) and Internationalized Email
>   Addresses in X.509 Certificates.
> 
> wasn't particularly helpful to me.  Are there a few words that would describe
> (at a high level) what the problem with RFC 5280 was, that required this
> document (I'm suggesting saying "so if you implemented RFC 5280, you can expect
> problems A and B, so you probably want to implement this specification as
> well", but in different words)?
> 
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