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I think that part of the difficulty here is the words used.  Our
experience in other areas is overwhelmingly in favor of "serial number"
being a sample from a counter that starts at 0 or 1 and is incremented by
1 every time it's consulted.  So we see a field described as a serial
number and ask why it isn't behaving properly.  It's too bad the standard
calls this attribute a "serial number" rather than, say, "certificate
unique identifier", but the term is fixed now.

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