Thank you Madison for your two today's responses,
on both of which I comment below.
On 23.12.25 19:51, Madison Church wrote:
Per internal discussion with RPAT, we have added "base64" to the list of
sourcecode types. Thus, we have left the sourcecode types as is in sections 5.1.1, 5.2.1,
5.3.1, 5.4.1, 5.5.1, and 5.6. We did not include DER, as we believe we should avoid
indicating what is inside the base64.
We ask that at least one author verify that base64 is acceptable before moving
forward with the publication process.
If the sourcecode type just governs how the contents are presented in
the RFC, which I believe is the case,
"base64" alone is sufficient because only the encoded bytes get printed,
and this output is independent of the structure of the encoded contents.
On Dec 23, 2025, at 11:54 AM, Madison Church<[email protected]>
wrote:
David - Thank you for your reply! We have updated the document with your
suggestion and noted your approval on the AUTH48 status page
(seehttps://www.rfc-editor.org/auth48/rfc9908).
The files have been posted here:
https://www.rfc-editor.org/authors/rfc9908.txt
For whatever reason, I do not (yet) see any update on the first
paragraph of Appendix A.
Looks like due to some mistake/glitch the suggested change was not
actually executed so far.
Regards,
David
On Dec 20, 2025, at 4:11 AM, David von Oheimb<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Madison et al.,
thank you for your updates.
Nice that you were able to avoid breaking up the line containing
"EXTENSION.&ExtnType({ExtensionSet}{@extnID})) OPTIONAL".
Well, regarding the recent below extension of the intro paragraph of Appendix A,
having a close look again also at related parts of the document,
I found that the term "Extension Request Template" newly used in the paragraph
has been copied from section 7,
while this term has not really been explicitly introduced (in section 3.4) and its OID
uses the abbreviated name "extensionReqTemplate".
As long as this is not considered somewhat confusing, I'd be fine with it as
well.
Appendix A not only introduces the Certification Request Information Template
attribute
and its Extension Request Template / extensionReqTemplate sub-attribute,
but also other sub-structures of the Certification Request Information Template.
If you are still open for a document adaptation, the paragraph may be improved
to, e.g.,
This appendix provides an ASN.1 module \[X.680\] for the Certification
Request Information Template attribute and its sub-template structures.
It follows the conventions established in \[RFC5911\],
\[RFC5912\], and \[RFC6268\].
Regardless of this minor editorial point, since it only pertains to the
informal intro of Appendix A,
I am also fine with the document, so you can note my approval as well.
David
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