Re: rfc 3280 interoperability testing

[Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>]

> My answer is that for such fields, all that is needed is to show that 
> the CAs can generate all of the described fields, and that they have 
> the proper formats, data types, etc.  There is no need to test how 
> applications actually use these fields, since that's an application 
> matter.  For fields whose behavior is needed by the certificate 
> processing mechanisms, the behavior itself is checked, of course.

wfm

randy