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The trusted issuer

From
Erik Rissanen <>
Date
2007-08-24T10:42:08+00:00
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The trusted issuer
All,

I propose that we drop the explicit identifiers for the trusted issuer 
in the delegation draft. (Section 5.4 in the delegation profile working 
draft 17.)

The reason for introducing the explicit trusted issuer was that someone 
in some discussion was concerned that it is easy to make a mistake by 
forgetting to include the issuer.

But for reasons of backwards compatibility we want a policy without an 
issuer to be considered trusted anyway. With this, I don't see much 
point in having the explicit trusted issuer in there. It just makes 
things more complex. Both for the spec and for code which has to deal 
with more special cases.

Regards,
Erik
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