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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'>Forgot to raise these earlier, but I ran across some questions as I hacked my way through the BR content. I thought I’d raise them here to start, and then can </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>raise()</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'> </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'>any that aren’t handled at this level to the SCWG for discussion.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><ol style='margin-top:0in' start=1 type=1><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'>In 1.6.1, under ‘Definitions’, we define ‘Effective Date’ as just ‘1 July 2012’. No context or anything else, just the date. Was that meant to be an example of an effective date, or the date the BRs became effective, or…?<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'>The BRs seem to be now the exclusive ‘property’ of the SCWG, which then focuses them on TLS Client/Server certificates, with S/MIME and email certificates handed off to the nascent S/MIME WG. With that in mind, do we still need section 3.2.3 (“Authentication of Individual Identity”)?<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'>Not quite a question, but I think we should either remove all of the “No stipulations” or add them in everywhere—it looks kind of weird to have them in some places and not in others.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'>Should we prune section 6.1.5 to remove all of the key sizes that are now no longer usable, like MD5 and RSA-1024?<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'>Can we re-word the list in section 8.2 to make it more grammatically agreeable? :)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'>It looks like sections 3.2.2.5.5 to 7 could use some re-wording to make them full sentences and turn them into requirements (they read like descriptions). Would that be a ballot for those changes, or simply a proposed wording change on the SCWG?<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'>Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'>Jos<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black'>-- <br>Jos Purvis (jopurvis@cisco.com)<br>.:|:.:|:. cisco systems | Cryptographic Services<br>PGP: 0xFD802FEE07D19105 | +1 919.991.9114 (desk)</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>