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Re: [TLS] Status of X.509v3 TLS Feature Extension?

Rob Stradling <rob.stradling@comodo.com> Mon, 28 April 2014 14:06 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] Status of X.509v3 TLS Feature Extension?
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On 28/04/14 14:39, Salz, Rich wrote:
>> An OID allocation request was submitted well over a year ago.  The reason for the delay is that following the shutdown of the PKIX WG, control of the PKIX OID registry is being transferred to IANA.  IINM, the transfer is still not yet complete.
>
> You know, the really cool thing about OID's is that just about anyone can get an arc and that they are really just distributed opaque identifiers. (Kinda like XML namespace UIR's I suppose.)  I'm sure there are many folks who would volunteer if needed.

I'm well aware of that.

See https://cabforum.org/pipermail/public/2013-November/002333.html

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Rob Stradling
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