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RFC 5280, "Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate and Certificate Revocation List (CRL) Profile", May 2008

Note: This RFC has been updated by RFC 6818, RFC 8398, RFC 8399, RFC 9549, RFC 9598, RFC 9608, RFC 9618

Source of RFC: pkix (sec)

Errata ID: 8561
Status: Held for Document Update
Type: Technical
Publication Format(s) : TEXT
Reported By: Mohamed Boucadair
Date Reported: 2025-09-03
Held for Document Update by: Paul Wouters
Date Held: 2025-09-03

Section 4.1.2.8 says: 

   This profile RECOMMENDS that names not be reused for
   different entities and that Internet certificates not make use of
   unique identifiers.

It should say:

   It is RECOMMENDED that names not be reused for
   different entities and that Internet certificates not make use of
   unique identifiers.

Notes:

RECOMMENDS is not a normative language per:

The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119].

There are other similar uses of RECOMMENDS in the document.

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