Subject: a new revision of the draft 4th edition of X.509 is on the server

From: "Hoyt L. Kesterson II" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 11:59:49 -0700

hello all

we have been receiving comments on the x509 text (thank you all) and 
have been making corrections.

a new revision of the draft 4th edition of x509 is on the directory 
server in both pdf and office 98 formats. the urls are:

ftp://ftp.bull.com/pub/OSIdirectory/4thEditionTexts/X.509_4thEditionDraftV5.pdf

ftp://ftp.bull.com/pub/OSIdirectory/4thEditionTexts/X.509_4thEditionDraftV5.doc

this revision (v5) contains:

1) an correction to an asn.1 abstract data type name

In the ASN.1 in Clause 11.2.9, replaced "PolicyID   ::=  CertPolicyID"
with: "PolicyID  ::=  CertPolicyId"

This same correction made in Annex A in the AuthenticationFramework
module, on page 97 (about 2/3 of the way down the page)

2) a corrected text cross reference

In clause 8.2.2.6, 2nd sentence, the reference "as described in 12.4.3",
is replaced with "as described in 10".

3) corrections to handle the inhibitAnyPolicy extension

Clause 10.1 Path processing inputs:
- added item f) to list of inputs to the certification path processing
- renumbered old f) to g) and
- added f) to the paragraph following list list.

Clause 10.3 Path processing variables
- added item g) to the list of variables used by the procedure
- renumbered old item f) to g)
- revised the text of item h)

Clause 10.4 Initialization step
- revised item h) to reflect the 3 rather than 2 settings

Clause 10.5 Certificate processing
- Under "The following checks are applied to a certificate":
      - replaced old steps d) e) and f) with revised steps d), e) and f)

- Under "For an intermediate certificate, ..."
       - added item f) to the list of checks
       - renumbered old item f) to g)

- Under "For all certificates ..."
       - added a new 2nd bullet to the list
       - revised the second last paragraph of the clause and delete the
         last paragraph (redundant).