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Re: My two pennies
At 03:57 PM 3/30/97 -0500, Marc Branchaud wrote:
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>Many, many issues to discuss. I'll try to refer to an issue number form
>the draft as I make my points...
Thanks for all the comments. I did get a little issue-happy, didn't I?
>(22) I don't understand the issue here. If we're letting users define
>their own object types (which is different from defining an <auth> type)
>then I guess we should use local dictionaries. Am I making sense?
I was considering user-defined <auth> types with named parameters. Each of
those parameters would have a user-defined object type.
>(23) If we do this, we should define a specific <auth> or set of <auth>s
>for when this is the case, and also explicitly state that May-delegate
>MUST be 0. This, of course, complicates things. What, exactly, is the
>meaning when a non-key object is the subject of a cert?
I was thinking, for example, of a signed purchase order or electronic check,
signed code, ....
>(25) It's always better to state things as clearly as possible. I say put
>the statement in the document.
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>Finally, two syntactical points about the draft.
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>- - For dates (4.1.18), don't make any fields optional. It could make for
> interoperability problems, especially WRT hashing. Also, make an
> explicit definition for midnight.
How would you define midnight? 1997-03-31_midnight ? If so, we have the problem of deciding whether this is the midnight which just happened a few hours ago as I write this or the midnight which is yet to come.
>- - <valid> is defined as:
> <valid>:: <not-before>? <not-after>? <online-test>? ;
> Should it not be:
> <valid>:: ( <not-before> | <not-after> ) | <online-test> ;
How are you using the ()s? | is logical OR, so the ()s have
no function here.
I used ?s because I assumed someone would want to specify up
to all 3 of these.
- Carl
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