- From: Sean Mullan <Sean.Mullan@Sun.COM>
- Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 08:06:55 -0500
- To: cantor.2@osu.edu
- Cc: "'XMLSec WG Public List'" <public-xmlsec@w3.org>
Scott Cantor wrote: > Suggested text for the end of section 4.4.4, after the new certificate > encoding language: > > "Deployments that expect to make use of the X509IssuerSerial element should > be aware that many Certificate Authorities issue certificates with large, > random serial numbers. Such deployments should avoid schema-validating the > X509IssuerSerial element. XML Schema validators may not support decimal data > types with more than 18 decimal digits [XML-schema]." Is "many" CAs accurate? Is "some" a better word? Also might want to change: "may not support decimal data ..." to "may not support integer types with decimal data ..." to be a little more specific. > > I was considering that it might be useful to also include a sentence > indicating that a future version of the specification would correct this > problem, but don't know what people think about that. Probably not good to make any promises ... --Sean
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