Subject: Re: QC Interoperability Was: Rename Qualified Certificates?

From: "Anders Rundgren" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 06:30:35 +0100

Steve,

>Anders,
>
>The profile being discussed here addresses syntax for a specicial class of
>certificates in the same way that RFC 2459 addresses syntax for a broader
>class of X.509 certs.  None of the documents specifies how an application
>will employ the raneg of data that can be represented in certs, especially
>in light of the large number of optional extensions that are available.

Exactly.  That was why I questioned Stefan's statement that QCs would support technical 
interoperability.  I sure does NOT.

The only thing that QC provides is a framework for creating ID-certificates.
It CAN speedup the process to create an actual implementation a bit, but only very
marginally.

IMO the value of that is [unfortunately] EXTREMELY limted as X509.v3 already is a framework itself.

<snip>

Anders