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Re: Member-of-issuer, name, member --> empty tag

To: rivest@theory.lcs.mit.edu (Ron Rivest)
Subject: Re: Member-of-issuer, name, member --> empty tag
From: Carl Ellison <cme@cybercash.com>
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 1997 13:16:15 -0500
Cc: spki@c2.net, blampson@microsoft.com
In-Reply-To: <199704011756.AA23608@swan.lcs.mit.edu>
Sender: owner-spki@c2.net

At 12:56 PM 4/1/97 EST, Ron Rivest wrote:
>
>I suggest that we eliminate the "member-of-issuer", "name", and "member"
>objects and replace them by an empty tag.  ("tag" is the suggested
>replacement for "auth").  That is, the tag field itself is mandatory, but
>it would have no parameters:
>	( tag )

Ron,

	this proposal has appeal.

	It also implies, to me, that there is no difference between a SDSI person 
name and a SDSI group name.  Do you and Butler agree to that interpretation?

 - Carl


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