These look fine to me.

Deb

On Thu, May 7, 2026 at 11:17 AM Göran Selander <goran.selander=
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Chris,
>
> We believe we have addressed all received comments on the draft.
>
> Do you want us to submit a new version? Any other outstanding actions on
> our side?
>
> Thanks,
> Göran
>
> *From: *Göran Selander <[email protected]>
> *Date: *Thursday, 7 May 2026 at 11:36
> *To: *Deb Cooley <[email protected]>
> *Cc: *The IESG <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>;
> [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected]
> <[email protected]>; [email protected] <
> [email protected]>
> *Subject: *Re: Deb Cooley's No Objection on
> draft-ietf-cose-cbor-encoded-cert-18: (with COMMENT)
>
> Hi Deb,
>
> Again, thanks for your review. Here are the responses to your remaining
> comments, see inline below with reference to PR#392
> <https://github.com/cose-wg/CBOR-certificates/pull/392>.
>
> For overview of the state of the draft, see Editor’s copy
> <https://cose-wg.github.io/CBOR-certificates/draft-ietf-cose-cbor-encoded-cert.html>
> :
>
> Thanks,
> Göran
>
>
> *From: *Deb Cooley <[email protected]>
> *Date: *Tuesday, 28 April 2026 at 17:14
> *To: *Göran Selander <[email protected]>
> *Cc: *The IESG <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>;
> [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected]
> <[email protected]>; [email protected] <
> [email protected]>
> *Subject: *Re: Deb Cooley's No Objection on
> draft-ietf-cose-cbor-encoded-cert-18: (with COMMENT)
>
> Thanks for that quick response.  The existence of implementations makes me
> feel better about the situation, including those in the shepherd's write up
> would have been awesome.
>
> I understand how easy it is to miss reviews.  I think it was a big win
> having a PKI guy assigned to this draft as secdir reviewer!
>
> Deb
>
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2026 at 10:44 AM Göran Selander <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Deb,
>
> Just a couple of quick reactions, mainly on the general comment, please
> see inline. More responses to the detailed comments will follow.
>
> Thanks,
> Göran
>
>
> *From: *Deb Cooley via Datatracker <[email protected]>
> *Date: *Tuesday, 28 April 2026 at 15:08
> *To: *The IESG <[email protected]>
> *Cc: *[email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <
> [email protected]>; [email protected] <
> [email protected]>; [email protected] <
> [email protected]>
> *Subject: *Deb Cooley's No Objection on
> draft-ietf-cose-cbor-encoded-cert-18: (with COMMENT)
>
> Deb Cooley has entered the following ballot position for
> draft-ietf-cose-cbor-encoded-cert-18: No Objection
>
>
> <snip>
>
>
> "Section 1, para 5: This could easily be deleted as it is repetitive with
> the
> para above. If it is left in the specification, please look at the sentence
> construction (it is indeed only a single sentence) that makes little sense
> after the 'e.g,' and then 'or' and then 'and’.
>
> [GS: The paragraphs are now merged, see PR#392
> <https://github.com/cose-wg/CBOR-certificates/pull/392>.]
>
> Section 1, #1: Please add a note to say that validating the signature on
> the
> certificate first requires that it is reverted back to the original X.509
> certificate.
>
> [GS: Done,  see PR#392
> <https://github.com/cose-wg/CBOR-certificates/pull/392>.]
>
> Section 1, second to last para: I would incorporate this information in #2
> above it. (again, a paragraph with a single sentence)
>
> [GS: Done,  see PR#392
> <https://github.com/cose-wg/CBOR-certificates/pull/392>.]
>
> Section 3.1.4, para 2: Why is the construction of serialNumber in this
> section
> vice Section 3.1.2?
>
> [GS: 3.1.2 is about the Serial Number field of the certificate. 3.1.4  is
> about the RDN attribute serialNumber. There is room for disambiguation
> here, changed the former to “certificateSerialNumber”, see PR#392
> <https://github.com/cose-wg/CBOR-certificates/pull/392>.]
>
> Section 3.1.4, para 4: Is this 'extension' part of the issuer name, or
> part of
> what is described in Section 3.1.10?
>
> [GS: Typo, should read ‘attribute’, fixed in Editor’s copy
> <https://cose-wg.github.io/CBOR-certificates/draft-ietf-cose-cbor-encoded-cert.html>
> .]
>
> Section 3.1.5: Do you need a reference for 'POSIX time’?
>
> [GS: Done,  see PR#392
> <https://github.com/cose-wg/CBOR-certificates/pull/392>.]
>
> Section 3.1.6: Should 'CBOR simple value' be 'CBOR simple value null'? (it
> is
> phrased that way in Section 3.1.4 and 3.1.5.
>
> [GS: Correct, fixed in Editor’s copy
> <https://cose-wg.github.io/CBOR-certificates/draft-ietf-cose-cbor-encoded-cert.html>
> .]
>
> Section 3.1.8 & 3.1.9: Where do these fields originate?
>
> [GS: Optional fields in TBSCertificate of X.509, see RFC 5280.]
>
> Section 3.3, para 3: Does this mean that the actual OID is the same
> regardless
> of the name? Or that there are multiple registered OIDs for the same
> extension? Please clarify if it is the former. If it is the latter, then
> specifying which OID is expected will make implementation less complex.
>
> [GS: The former, added in PR#392
> <https://github.com/cose-wg/CBOR-certificates/pull/392>.]
>
> Section 3.3.1, key usage: Isn't key usage normally critical? Wouldn't an
> example of that be more useful?
>
> [GS: Perhaps, but there already an example of a critical extension in this
> section. Since that would just be a matter of changing the sign of the
> value, we didn't think all instances were necessary to represent as
> examples.]
>
> Section 8.1, para 1: I wonder how a DE will determine if a request can be
> solved in a 'better in a different way'. 'Better' being very subjective.
>
> [GS: Fixed in PR#389
> <https://github.com/cose-wg/CBOR-certificates/pull/389>]
>
> Section 8.14: Why are SHA-1 algorithms being registered (even if they are
> marked as 'deprecated')?"
>
> [GS: The intent with this document has been to create an encoding for
> certificates that are “out there”, not to give recommendations about what
> algorithms etc to use. We have updated the security considerations, see 
> Editor’s
> copy
> <https://cose-wg.github.io/CBOR-certificates/draft-ietf-cose-cbor-encoded-cert.html>
> :
> "The specification makes no recommendations on the use of algorithms,
> paddings, or other security constructs applied in the encoding of a
> certificate. In particular, an IANA registration does not imply a
> recommendation. For example, some deprecated algorithms are assigned code
> points only for backward compatibility to enable CBOR encoding of existing
> certificates.”]
>
> Thanks,
> Göran
>
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