Lutz Jaenicke schrieb:
>
> On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 10:53:38AM +0200, Michael Bell wrote:
> > I read RFC 1700 and I don't see why we should get problem if we rename
> > "internet 7" in crypto/objects/objects.txt from "mail" to
> > "internetMail". Nobody should ever use a direct reference to these
> > #defines. Only objects.txt would use this name and if the first user
> > need a subtree then we simply insert mimeMHS as next subtree below
> > internetMail.
>
> On the risk on sounding bureaucratic...
>
> I have checked out both RFC1274 and RFC2247 and I could not see "mail"
> being listed anywhere.
>
> However from RFC1495
>
> 5 OID Assignments
>
> MIME-MHS DEFINITIONS ::= BEGIN
>
> mail OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { internet 7 }
>
> mime-mhs OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { mail 1 }
>
> mime-mhs-headings OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { mime-mhs 1 }
>
> id-hex-partial-message OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::=
> { mime-mhs-headings 1 }
>
> id-hex-multipart-message OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::=
> { mime-mhs-headings 2 }
>
> mime-mhs-bodies OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { mime-mhs 2 }
>
> END
>
> I come to the conclusion that I prefer to leave "mail" for use in the
> "internet 7" class.
I have no problem with this but what do you want to with the short name
for an RFC822mailbox? Do you want to ignore the warning or do you want
to ignore the shortname?
The problem is that OpenSSL mixes OID definitions and attributenames.
Perhaps there are too much magic things.
Michael
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