This draft defines the mappings from filename extension (.cer, .roa, .crl, etc) to ASN.1 object type (X.509 certificate, ROA, CRL, etc).
Without this mapping, relying party tools have no way of knowing what they're looking at in most cases, and would have to attempt to decode every object in various ways to see which (if any) worked. This would be tedious, error prone, and generally a bad idea. For this reason, I think the document that defines the filename mappings should be Standards Track; at present, that's this document, so I agree with the change of track. _______________________________________________ sidr mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/sidr
