I wrote, On 2009-01-12 15:08 PST:
> Eddy Nigg wrote, On 2009-01-12 14:51:
>> On 01/13/2009 12:37 AM, Julien R Pierre - Sun Microsystems:
>>> I agree. The person who wrote that page must have misunderstood the
>>> meaning of the CRL Issuing Distribution Points extension. This extension
>>> is required to be critical in RFC 3280 and 5280 for good reason - it
>>> defines the scope of the CRL. Unless the client software understands the
>>> scope, the CRL is meaningless to it. It should not be confused with a
>>> full CRL.
> 
> I don't know that the presence of a CIDP necessary means that the CRL is
> not a full CRL.  The original comment arose in the context of a CA that
> was putting CIDP into their full CRLs.
> 
>> I think this was Kathleen, however based on comments from here. As I 
>> understood (from Nelson), CRLs with critical CIDP extension fail to load 
>> properly with NSS. Is this correct?
> 
> Yes.  And that's appropriate for partial CRLs.

I updated that portion of the page.
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