On 7/2/10 11:46 PM, =JeffH wrote: > As PaulH said ... finally decloaking after being off this topic for a > while. Apologies for latency. > > Peter, thanks for updating the draft! > > All -- good discussion on the list, thanks for all the thoughtful > contributions -- the spec is much better for it. > > Yes, I have various bits of feedback on -07, some described below. this > is without a careful review though, and is driven by reading through the > recent threads on certid@ and checking -07 for how the issues were > addressed. I concur with the decisions taken. It seems that all raised > issues were nominally addressed in -07, so the below are > (subtle-but-important) nits. > > =JeffH > ------ > > [ the below items aren't necessarily difficult to clean up, I'm just > noting them for the record for now ] > > * It seems to me coming to this new revision of the spec somewhat > "fresh", that the concepts being addressed could build more cleanly from > (especially) section 1.1 (intro/motivation), section 2 Names, and > section 3 Representation of Server Identity. I can take a whack at > making concrete suggestions by early/mid this next week.
That sounds nice but not necessary. :) > * need to explicitly define (at least) the below terms/phrases in > section 1.3 if we are going to use them.. > > attribute-type-and-value pair > > DER encoding > > Internet application ..or.. application service ..or.. ? > > service provider > > subjectAltName (this term is used in section 1.3 but isn't itself > defined > until seciton 2.2) Added to the terminology section (along with several other terms). > * I think we need to review the terms/phrases we use to reference cert > components and aspects thereof. I think we're being inconsistent and at > times ambiguous (need to do careful review). unfortunately other specs > we depend on use non-congruent terminology it seems. > > E.g. in just sections 2.2 and 3 we use these various terms/phrases wrt > "subjectAltName"... > > subjectAltName extension > > subjectAltName extension types > > subjectAltNames > > subjectAltName entry > > SubjectAltName field > > subjectAltName identifier > > subjectAltName identifier types > > subjectAltName identifier of type > > [the GeneralName structure in] the subjectAltName > > > ..and then including the rest of the spec we also use (in addition to > the above).. > > application-specific subjectAltName extensions > > subjectAltName extension of type > > subjectAltName extensions of type > > > Obviously various of the above terms/phrases are redundant and we ought > to clean this up. Fixed, per my previous message. > --- > end I hope we're nearing the end so that we can request a Last Call soon (several specs now have dependencies on this I-D, including one that's already been approved by the IESG and one that will soon go into IETF Last Call). Peter -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/ _______________________________________________ certid mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/certid
