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[pkix] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC7030 (5108)
Sean Turner
2017-09-07 20:40:26 UTC
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Note that this issue was discovered during IESG review of draft-turner-est-extensions. Alexey, Panos, Dan, Max, and myself worked on the wording. I’m hoping it can stew for a couple of days and then be marked as accepted.

spt
The following errata report has been submitted for RFC7030,
"Enrollment over Secure Transport".
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http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/eid5108
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Type: Technical
Section: 4.2.3, 4.4.2
Original Text
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If the content-type is not set, the response data MUST be a plaintext
human-readable error message containing explanatory information
describing why the request was rejected (for example, indicating that
CSR attributes are incomplete).
If the content-type is not set, the response data MUST be a plaintext
human-readable error message.
Corrected Text
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If the content-type is not set, the response data must be a plaintext
human-readable error message containing explanatory information
describing why the request was rejected (for example, indicating that
CSR attributes are incomplete). Servers MAY use the "text/plain”
content-type [RFC2046] for human-readable errors.
If the content-type is not set, the response data must be a plaintext
human-readable error message. Servers MAY use the "text/plain”
content-type [RFC2046] for human-readable errors.
Notes
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The current text is somewhat unclear as to what content-type needs to be used for the human-readable error. There are many human-readable content-types, but "text/plain" seems to be the most sensible.
Note that the MUST was reduced to a must because no content-type is specified.
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RFC7030 (draft-ietf-pkix-est-09)
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Title : Enrollment over Secure Transport
Publication Date : October 2013
Author(s) : M. Pritikin, Ed., P. Yee, Ed., D. Harkins, Ed.
Category : PROPOSED STANDARD
Source : Public-Key Infrastructure (X.509)
Area : Security
Stream : IETF
Verifying Party : IESG
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