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RFC 4211, "Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate Request Message Format (CRMF)", September 2005

Note: This RFC has been updated by RFC 9045

Source of RFC: pkix (sec)

Errata ID: 2339
Status: Held for Document Update
Type: Technical
Publication Format(s) : TEXT

Reported By: Alfred Hoenes
Date Reported: 2005-11-08
Held for Document Update by: Tim Polk
Date Held: 2010-07-20

Section B says:

Near the middle of page 32, contains the following [commented out] ASN.1, and ASN.1 comment:

  -- UTF8String ::= [UNIVERSAL 12] IMPLICIT OCTET STRING
         -- The contents of this type correspond to RFC 2279.
                                                        ^^^^

The RFC should say:

  -- UTF8String ::= [UNIVERSAL 12] IMPLICIT OCTET STRING
         -- The contents of this type correspond to RFC 3629.

It should say:

[see above]     

Notes:

RFC 2279 has been obsoleted by RFC 3629 == STD 63 "long" ago.

I am aware of the fact that the UTF-8 definition in RFC 3629
syntactically and semantically by intention is a proper subset
of the definition in RFC 2279 (restriction to possible Unicode
codepoints with up to 24-bit representation).

Thus, it might be true that the reference to RFC 2279 has been
used intentionally in this ASN.1 comment, e.g., because RFC 3280
[PROFILE] (pre-3629!) referred to RFC 2279 in that context.
But, regarding the STD status of RFC 3629, a standards track RFC
like RFC 4211 should, in this case, present explicit arguments
for the deviation from STD 63. (It doesn't.)

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