Thank you Ryan. Brian reviewed these changes back in May, so I've gone
ahead and accepted them for the 2.7 policy update:
https://github.com/mozilla/pkipolicy/commit/5657ecf650d70fd3c6ca5062bee360fd83da9d27

I'll consider this issue resolved unless there are further comments.

- Wayne

On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 1:38 AM Ryan Sleevi <r...@sleevi.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 7:43 PM Brian Smith <br...@briansmith.org> wrote:
>
>> Ryan Sleevi <r...@sleevi.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> It would be easier to understand if this is true if the proposed text
>>>> cited the RFCs, like RFC 4055, that actually impose the requirements that
>>>> result in the given encodings.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Could you clarify, do you just mean adding references to each of the
>>> example encodings (such as the above example, for the SPKI encoding)?
>>>
>>
>> Exactly. That way, it is clear that the given encodings are not imposing
>> a new requirement, and it would be clear which standard is being used to
>> determine to correct encoding.
>>
>
> Thanks, did that in
> https://github.com/sleevi/pkipolicy/commit/80da8acded63618a058d26c73db1e2438a6df9ed
>
>
>>
>> I realize that determining the encoding from each of these cited specs
>> would require understanding more specifications, including in particular
>> how ASN.1 DER requires DEFAULT values to be encoded. I would advise against
>> calling out all of these details individually less people get confused by
>> inevitable omissions.
>>
>
> Hopefully struck the right balance. These changes are now reflected in the
> PR at https://github.com/mozilla/pkipolicy/pull/183
>
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