EV-cert: "issuer-specific extension OID"?!

Phill,

I see that your current conformance language for EV certs includes
the following phrase:

  A certificate issuer distinguishes a certificate authenticated
  according to EV criteria by means of an issuer specific extension
  OID.

--  http://www.w3.org/2006/WSC/wiki/RecommendationDisplayProposals/EVCerts

I'm not sure if it's just me, but I'd like to see a specific OID
with a normative reference to an open standard in that place.  The
current language is effectively a hook for all kinds of proprietary
material, and indeed not enough to usefully assess any kind of
interoperability or compliance.

Maybe the definition of that OID is worth a two-page RFC, to be done
in PKIX reasonably quickly?  (Despite having sat in the meeting last
week, I'll admit ignorance as to the politics of PKIX and the
group's ability to do things like that quickly.)

Cheers,
-- 
Thomas Roessler, W3C  <tlr@w3.org>

Received on Saturday, 28 July 2007 19:20:34 UTC