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RFC 6818
Title: Updates to the Internet X.509
Public Key Infrastructure Certificate and Certificate
Revocation List (CRL) Profile
Author: P. Yee
Status: Standards Track
Stream: IETF
Date: January 2013
Mailbox: peter@akayla.com
Pages: 8
Characters: 17439
Updates: RFC5280
I-D Tag: draft-ietf-pkix-rfc5280-clarifications-11.txt
URL: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6818.txt
This document updates RFC 5280, the "Internet X.509 Public
Key Infrastructure Certificate and Certificate Revocation List
(CRL) Profile". This document changes the set of acceptable encoding
methods for the explicitText field of the user notice policy
qualifier and clarifies the rules for converting internationalized
domain name labels to ASCII. This document also provides some
clarifications on the use of self-signed certificates, trust anchors,
and some updated security considerations. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
This document is a product of the Public-Key Infrastructure (X.509) Working Group of the IETF.
This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.
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protocol for the Internet community,and requests discussion and suggestions
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