Esko Dijk <[email protected]> wrote:
    > For example, proximity-registrar-pubk is defined as a new field that
    > can be used instead of proximity-registrar-cert, effectively specifying
    > an alternative format for identification of a registrar.

    > We can do the same for date fields, e.g.
    > "created-on" -> "created-on-epochtime"
    > "expires-on" -> "expires-on-epochtime"

I don't mind doing this.
Does it establish some precedent that others may dislike?

    > The nice thing is that a Registrar or a MASA can easily handle either
    > format, while the Pledge can be code-optimized to handle only the
    > numeric uint format. (And MASA knows what the Pledge can support so
    > will use the proper encoding the Pledge can understand.)

Yes, I agree. It's really not a problem for the non-constrained systems.

    > I suspect this can't be wrong, because we're doing the same for other
    > fields (e.g. the proximity-registrar-cert as mentioned earlier.)

created-on is almost entirely for documentation/debugging purposes.
Both are mostly irrelevant to actual processing in voucher-requests.
It's on the pledge that I really prefer to avoid having time/date parsing
code present.

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