Subject: no trees were hurt in the making of this revision

From: "Hoyt L. Kesterson II" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 01:12:47 -0700

In 1988 a magazine reported the publishing of the CCITT (now ITU) 1988 recommendations as "forests fall as CCITT moves to publish".

Only electrons will perish as a result of my telling you that since we found a few asn.1 errors, we decided to produce a corrected version of X.509/9594-8.

you can find the replacement text in word 8 and pdf formats at 

  ftp://ftp.bull.com/pub/OSIdirectory/4thEditionTexts/X.509_4thEditionDraftV2.doc

ftp://ftp.bull.com/pub/OSIdirectory/4thEditionTexts/X.509_4thEditionDraftV2.pdf

this text is unofficial until iso approves it. iso will begin a final amendment ballot soon. the ballot period lasts for two months.

note that when the text is approved and available for purchase, it will be removed from this server.

  hoyt