Re: Certificate authentication

[pgut001%cs.auckland.ac.nz@localhost (Peter Gutmann)]

nisse%lysator.liu.se@localhost (Niels =?iso-8859-1?q?M=F6ller?=) writes:

>I'd like to do spki certificates, but at the moment it's not a high priority
>either.

Speaking of SPKI, it's not just X.509 that has the issue with being
underspecified, both SPKI and PGP have the same problem.  Instead of removing
these portions entirely, how about adding a note to say that the identifiers
for X.509/SPKI/PGP are reserved for possible future standardisation?  That way
if in the future someone decides they want to get some mechanism standardised,
the identifiers are already defined.

Peter.