Review of application/pkix-attr-cert Media Type

Russ Housley housley at vigilsec.com
Mon Oct 5 21:17:40 CEST 2009


> >http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-pkix-attr-cert-mime-type-01.txt
> >
> >This document includes the application/pkix-attr-cert media type
> >registration.  The document is also going through WG Last Call in the
> >PKIX WG.  Please review.
>
>In the template, the "Person & email address" part does not properly
>separate name and address (like is done under "Author" for example).
>
>File name extensions are usually given in lower case; if people are
>actually to use the "AC" spelling and not "ac", that should be said
>more clearly, otherwise it should say "ac" instead.

Thanks, I'll fix these.

>The encoding considerations should simply say 7bit, 8bit, or one of
>the other values specified in RFC 4288 section 4.8. I believe I said
>as much earlier.

I guess I missed the point.  It is 8bit.

>Is there no pattern that could be cited in the magic number section?

No really, especially if we want to allow for the version number to 
in increased in the future.

Russ



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