RFC3280 and/or 3280bis?

• From: Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie>
• Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:00:52 +0100
• To: W3 Work Group <public-wsc-wg@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <47F60A64.1020104@cs.tcd.ie>

RFC3280 is about to be obsoleted by its successor, [1] which has
just entered the AUTH48 state in the RFC editor's queue [2] and
so should be an RFC in a few weeks.

I guess the question is whether or not to make the new RFC our
main PKI reference or not. Formally, I guess we should, but few
implementations will conform immediately so maybe we should do
something else, e.g. say that conforming to either is ok. There
aren't any changes that'd have much affect on xit that I recall,
so I think that'd be ok.

Stephen.

[1] http://tools.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-pkix-rfc3280bis-11.txt
[2] http://www.rfc-editor.org/queue.html#draft-ietf-pkix-rfc3280bis

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