Re: Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-stroeder-mailboxrelatedobject-06.txt

Sean Leonard <[email protected]> Sun, 05 Oct 2014 07:00:41 -0700

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On 9/26/2014 9:08 AM, Michael Ströder wrote:
> Michael Ströder wrote:
>> Personally I consider PKCS#9 to be seriously flawed. E.g. defining as
>> GeneralizedTime is bad design. Yuck!
> Should have been: "defining dateOfBirth as GeneralizedTime"
>                  	    ^^^^^^^^^^^

Hi Michael, I just wanted to follow up on this. What exactly is the 
problem with GeneralizedTime? There are over half a dozen standardized 
ways to represent dates and times in ASN.1 (probably over a dozen 
including CHOICE types invented over the years). For its purpose, 
however, GeneralizedTime gets the job done. It's been around since 
X.208:1984, so everybody should support it.

-Sean