Re: Call for consensus: Marking spki and pkcs8 key format support as non-normative

I'm glad we're not removing them. I'd prefer we leave them as they are now,
and not even mark them non-normative. I've tried to follow the older
mailing list threads, and don't really see any consensus there. The
discussions just petered out without people converging on a shared
viewpoint, and most of the people in those discussions haven't been on the
list or in calls lately.

I believe I understand the issues regarding deviations from the ASN.1 spec
between implementations, but those deviations have been around a long time
and the various libraries seem to be able to share keys using spki and
pkcs8 anyway. I'd like to leave the WebCryptoAPI working the same way.

Charlie

On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 6:50 AM, Harry Halpin <hhalpin@w3.org> wrote:

> Since there's been no objections on the list or github and two weeks
> have passed - also with no news from Ryan Hurst and Jim Schaad re the
> DER/BER encoding issues - we'll simply mark all uses of SPKI and PKCS#8
> as non-normative in the spec but not remove them.
>
> We'll discuss how to phrase this during the telecon today.
>
>   cheers,
>
>      harry
>
>