>    In the same paragraph, the sentence before the one you're quoting says "If 
> the subject field contains an empty sequence, then the issuing CA MUST 
> include a subjectAltName extension that is marked as critical."
    
>    It's not possible to have a missing subject name in a certificate, the 
> field is not OPTIONAL.
  
You are of course correct.  Thanks Erwann.  (He has forgotten more about ASN1 
than I ever knew :)

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