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Re: [pkix] way forward for 5280



I'd suggest that since this is a deprecation that it be MUST NOT create and SHOULD accept to deal with interop with existing systems.  Just a thought.


At 10:41 AM 11/17/2009, Stephen Kent wrote:
>At 11:13 PM -0500 11/16/09, Michael StJohns wrote:
>>Steve - to clarify, IA5String moves to a SHOULD NOT or a MUST NOT? 
>>Or is it SHOULD NOT on create and MUST or SHOULD on the accept?
>>
>>Thanks - Mike
>
>Mike,
>
>You are right that I was not precise enough in my characterization.
>
>The current document says:
>
>        SHOULD UTF8
>        MAY IA5String
>        MUST NOT VisibleString & BMPString
>
>The proposal is:
>
>        SHOULD UTF8
>        MAY VisibleString
>        MUST NOT IA5String or BMPString
>
>Steve



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