discuss: draft-ietf-pkix-pi-07.txt

[Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>]

the rfc-ed has their job cut out for them.

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i think there are some rituals that have to be followed re utf8, and
they are not being followed.  but i am not an expert in this.  e.g. i
suspect this is deadly

      The Alphanumeric Identifier Match rule compares for equality a
      presented value with an attribute value of type UTF8String 
      or IA5String, which is interpreted as a series of alphanumeric 
      characters.  The rules for matching are that a working comparison 
      value is constructed from each of the two values by including 
      only the digits and alphabetic characters appearing in the value; 
      and then the two comparison values are compared using 
      CaseIgnoreMatch.  This rule is intended for use only with 
      identifiers in variants of the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic scripts.

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what is a "full arc?"

   Note: the full arc of the object identifier used to identify the 
   permanent identifier name form is derived using:

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randy