Technical Summary
This document updates RFC 3280 by defining the Authority Information
Access Certificate Revocation Lists (CRL) extension. RFC 3280 [PKIX1]
provides for bottom-up discovery of certification paths through the
Authority Information Access extension. This document defines the use
of the Authority Information Access extension in CRLs, enabling a CRL
checking application to to locate certificates that may be useful in
the construction of a valid CRL issuer certification path to an
appropriate trust anchor.
Working Group Summary
The working group had consensus to advance the draft to proposed standard.
Protocol Quality
This document has been reviewed by members of the ietf-pkix@imc.org
mailing list, the RFC 3280bis design team, and by the working groupc
chairs. This document was reviewed for the IESG by Sam Hartman.