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Re: [Tls-reg-review] spelling change request in TLS Certificate Types registry

Barry Leiba <barryleiba@computer.org> Sat, 14 December 2019 14:48 UTC

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From: Barry Leiba <barryleiba@computer.org>
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2019 09:48:04 -0500
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Subject: Re: [Tls-reg-review] spelling change request in TLS Certificate Types registry
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No-brainer here, yes.  Process-wise, for completeness, I think we
should consider this to be an erratum in 8446, in that it neglected to
include an IANA action for this.  I think it makes sense to submit an
errata report to add it, mark that report as "verified", and ask IANA
to make the change.

Barry

On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 8:46 PM Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> RFC 8446 deliberately changed the spelling for the TLS Certificate type
> assigned value 0 (listed at
> https://www.iana.org/assignments/tls-extensiontype-values/tls-extensiontype-values.xhtml#tls-extensiontype-values-3),
> from "X.509" to "X509" (no dot).  This was done to improve the
> compatibility of the protocol description language with automated
> processing tools.  Since the name is not a protocol constant and merely a
> descriptive mnemonic, I propose that we update the name listed in the
> registry accordingly.  Adding [RFC8446] as a reference at the same time
> also seems plausible.  Comments welcome!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ben
>

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