Subject: draft-ietf-pkix-rfc2511bis

From: Russ Housley <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 09:53:45 -0400

I am concerned about the change that is illustrated below (please excuse
the HTML).

-- Registration Info in CRMF
id-regInfo       OBJECT
IDENTIFIER ::= { id-pkip id-regInfo(2) }

id-regInfo-asciiPairs

id-regInfo-utf8Pairs
OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { id-regInfo 1 }
--with syntax
OCTET STRING
UTF8STRING
id-regInfo-certReq       OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { id-regInfo 2 }
--with syntax CertRequest

First, I am concerned about the change in the semantics associated with an OID that was assigned a long time ago.  This could lead to interoperability issues.  Why would we change the semantics of an existing OID instead of assigning a new OID.

Second, this change does not show up in the ASN.1 module.  Why are the OIDs not part of the ASN.1 module?

Russ