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RFC 3647: Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate Policy and Certification Practices Framework

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This document presents a framework to assist the writers of certificate policies or certification practice statements for participants within public key infrastructures, such as certification authorities, policy authorities, and communities of interest that wish to rely on certificates. In particular, the framework provides a comprehensive list of topics that potentially (at the writer's discretion) need to be covered in a certificate policy or a certification practice statement. This document supersedes RFC 2527.

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Document ID
RFC3647
Published
November 2003
Authors
S. Chokhani; W. Ford; R. Sabett; C. Merrill; S. Wu
Status
INFORMATIONAL
Stream
IETF
Area
sec
Pages
94
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RFC 2527

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