Seems reasonable to me.

Russ

> On Dec 16, 2020, at 12:28 PM, Göran Selander 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> All,
> 
> Here is a PR reflecting the change proposed below:
> https://github.com/cose-wg/Charter/pull/7 
> <https://github.com/cose-wg/Charter/pull/7>
> 
> The changes are in the two first sentences, and “native COSE certificate 
> encoding” is changed to “natively signed CBOR certificate encoding”
>  
> OLD
> A CBOR encoding of the compressed certificate profile defined in RFC 7925. It 
> is expected that the compression works with a large subset of RFC 7925 and 
> takes into consideration any updates in draft-ietf-uta-tls13-iot-profile-00. 
> The compression may also include other important IoT certificate profiles 
> like IEEE 802.1AR. The main objective is to define a method of compressing 
> current X.509 certificates that meet a specific profile into a smaller 
> format. This compression algorithm is loss-less so they can be expanded and 
> normal X.509 certificate processing used. The data structures used to encode 
> such compressed X.509 certificates are expected to produce a compact encoding 
> for certificate information, and are not necessarily tied specifically to 
> X.509 certificates. Accordingly, a secondary objective is to reuse these data 
> structures to produce a native COSE certificate encoding; such a structure is 
> relevant in situations where DER parsing and the compression/decompression 
> machinery to convert between CBOR and DER encodings are unnecessary overhead, 
> such as embedded implementations. The possibility of a joint certificate 
> artifact, conveyed in CBOR encoding but including signatures over both the 
> CBOR and DER encodings, may be explored. This work will be based on 
> draft-mattsson-cose-cbor-cert-compress. The working group will collaborate 
> and coordinate with other IETF WGs such as TLS, UTA, LAKE to understand and 
> validate the requirements and solution.
>  
> NEW
> A CBOR encoding of the certificate profile defined in RFC 5280. It is 
> expected that the compression works with RFC 7925 and takes into 
> consideration any updates in draft-ietf-uta-tls13-iot-profile-00. The 
> compression may also include other important IoT certificate profiles like 
> IEEE 802.1AR. The main objective is to define a method of compressing current 
> X.509 certificates that meet a specific profile into a smaller format. This 
> compression algorithm is loss-less so they can be expanded and normal X.509 
> certificate processing used. The data structures used to encode such 
> compressed X.509 certificates are expected to produce a compact encoding for 
> certificate information, and are not necessarily tied specifically to X.509 
> certificates. Accordingly, a secondary objective is to reuse these data 
> structures to produce a natively signed CBOR certificate encoding; such a 
> structure is relevant in situations where DER parsing and the 
> compression/decompression machinery to convert between CBOR and DER encodings 
> are unnecessary overhead, such as embedded implementations. The possibility 
> of a joint certificate artifact, conveyed in CBOR encoding but including 
> signatures over both the CBOR and DER encodings, may be explored. This work 
> will be based on draft-mattsson-cose-cbor-cert-compress. The working group 
> will collaborate and coordinate with other IETF WGs such as TLS, UTA, LAKE to 
> understand and validate the requirements and solution.
>  
>  
> 
> Göran
> 
>  
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