Issue 4206: Specification of CertificateType (pki-ftf) Source: DSTC (Mr. Simon Gibson, gibson@dstc.edu.au) Nature: Clarification Severity: Minor Summary: Section 2 "PKI Interface" does not define CertificateType. For completeness CertificateType should be declared under section 2, probably following the definition of EncodingType (see issue B). Resolution: see above Revised Text: Actions taken: February 19, 2001: received issue July 5, 2002: closed issue Discussion: Add the following text to Chapter 2 after Chapter 2.2.2 Opaque "2.2.X CertificateType The CertificateType is used to explicitly describe the type of certificate that has been encoded. Some examples of certificate types are the X509 versions of certificate (version 3 being the most common in use), Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) certificates or Simple Public Key Infrastructure (SPKI) certificates." End of Annotations:===== From: webmaster@omg.org Message-Id: <200102190043.f1J0hmF11734@emerald.omg.org> Date: 18 Feb 2001 20:45:29 -0500 To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Issue/Bug Report Content-Type: Text/html; charset=windows-1252 X-UIDL: D"`!! Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-UIDL: 3ho!!iCjd9R?C!!LI$!! This is issue # 4205 Simon Gibson gibson@dstc.edu.au Specification of EncodingType Section 2 "PKI Interface" does not define EncodingType. There is a an introduction to this is section 1, and details in the IDL, however, for completeness - EncodingType should be declared under section 2, probably following the definition of Opaque. --------------------------------------- Proposed Solution Add the following to Section 2 after 2.2.1 Opaque. "The EncodingType is a type used to describe the method of encoding used to encode the original PKI structure to an Opaque type. The general case will be ASN.1 DER (Distinguished Encoding Rules)." This is issue # 4206 Simon Gibson gibson@dstc.edu.au Specification of CertificateType Section 2 "PKI Interface" does not define CertificateType. For completeness CertificateType should be declared under section 2, probably following the definition of EncodingType (see issue B). ------------------------------ Proposed Solution Add the following to Section 2 "The CertificateType is a type describing the actual type of certificate represented in the Opaque data. This will in the general case most likely be an X509 Version 3 Certificate." This is issue # 4207 Simon Gibson gibson@dstc.edu.au Naming of RepresentationType The name "RepresentationType" would indicate that the type is a definition of a particular representation type, when in fact is a structure carrying a particular set of encoded information. For clarity this type should be renaming to something like "EncodedInformation". ------------------------------- Proposed Solution Leave RepresentationType unchanged. X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: pmclaughlin@baltimore.com (Patrick McLaughlin), polar@adiron.com (Polar Humenn), gjarboe@promia.com (Gene Garboe), cwbinko@trcinc.com (Bill Binko), mcconnell@osm.net (Stephen McConnell), Ronald.Monzillo@east.sun.com (Ron Monzillo), gibson@dstc.edu.au (Simon Gibson), christopher_milsom@hp.com (Christopher Milsom), IBalabine@iona.com (Igor Balabine) cc: pki-ftf@omg.org Subject: Request Vote issue #4205, #4206 Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 10:23:41 +1000 From: Simon Gibson Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-UIDL: V0&!!&\6!!+'5e9*$&!! Hi There, 2 more issues. Very straight forward. Nearly there :) Simon Issue 4205: Specification of EncodingType (pki-ftf) Click here for this issue's archive. Source: DSTC (Mr. Simon Gibson, gibson@dstc.edu.au) Nature: Clarification Severity: Minor Summary: Section 2 "PKI Interface" does not define EncodingType. There is a an introduction to this is section 1, and details in the IDL, however, for completeness - EncodingType should be declared under section 2, probably following the definition of Opaque. Resolution: Add the following text to Chapter 2 after Chapter 2.2.2 Opaque "2.2.X EncodingType The EncodingType describes the way in which the byte representation is encoded. This is used to explicitly name the encoding method used. Some examples are ASN.1 Distinguished Encoding Rules (DER), ASN.1 Basic Encoding Rules (BER) ar perhaps Base 64 encoding." Revised Text: Actions taken: February 19, 2001: received issue Issue 4206: Specification of CertificateType (pki-ftf) Click here for this issue's archive. Source: DSTC (Mr. Simon Gibson, gibson@dstc.edu.au) Nature: Clarification Severity: Minor Summary: Section 2 "PKI Interface" does not define CertificateType. For completeness CertificateType should be declared under section 2, probably following the definition of EncodingType (see issue B). Resolution: Add the following text to Chapter 2 after Chapter 2.2.2 Opaque "2.2.X CertificateType The CertificateType is used to explicitly describe the type of certificate that has been encoded. Some examples of certificate types are the X509 versions of certificate (version 3 being the most common in use), Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) certificates or Simple Public Key Infrastructure (SPKI) certificates." Revised Text: Actions taken: February 19, 2001: received issue