Re: [Spasm] New Version Notification for draft-wconner-blake2sigs-00.txt

Rob Stradling <rob.stradling@comodo.com> Tue, 02 May 2017 10:21 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Spasm] New Version Notification for draft-wconner-blake2sigs-00.txt
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On 01/05/17 20:31, Brian Smith wrote:
> Russ Housley <housley@vigilsec.com> wrote:
>> As a matter of taste, I’d prefer to see the Object Identifiers assigned in
>> the PKIX algorithm arc:
>> https://www.iana.org/assignments/smi-numbers/smi-numbers.xhtml#smi-numbers-1.3.6.1.5.5.7.6
>>
>> The Object Identifiers will be slightly smaller, but not enough to argue
>> about.  My preference is to have them assigned in an arc that is managed by
>> IANA.
>
> I disagree with this. OIDs should be as small as possible to maximize
> the number of (constrained) situations the standard can be used.

+1

draft-ietf-curdle-pkix and draft-ietf-trans-rfc6962-bis both use OIDs 
that were generously donated by Symantec/thawte from their (short) 
1.3.101 arc.

I suggest inviting Symantec to donate some 1.3.101.<x> OIDs for 
draft-wconner-blake2sigs too.

-- 
Rob Stradling
Senior Research & Development Scientist
COMODO - Creating Trust Online