On 11/29/10 8:20 PM, Matt McCutchen wrote: > On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 16:31 -0700, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: >> Finally, although theoretically some consider the order of AVAs >> within an RDN to have meaning, in practice that rule is not observed. >> An AVA of type CN to be valid at any position within the subject >> field. > > The last sentence is missing a verb. > > Also, I don't see how AVAs within an RDN could ever have a meaningful > order. The RDN is a "SET OF" AVAs, i.e., unordered. The encoding order > is not significant; in fact, it is fixed by DER.
Right, my bad. It should be: Finally, although theoretically some consider the order of RDNs within a DN to have meaning, in practice that rule is not observed. An AVA of type CN is considered to be valid at any position within the subject field DN.
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