Eddy Nigg wrote, On 2009-01-12 14:51:
> On 01/13/2009 12:37 AM, Julien R Pierre - Sun Microsystems:
>> I agree. The person who wrote that page must have misunderstood the
>> meaning of the CRL Issuing Distribution Points extension. This extension
>> is required to be critical in RFC 3280 and 5280 for good reason - it
>> defines the scope of the CRL. Unless the client software understands the
>> scope, the CRL is meaningless to it. It should not be confused with a
>> full CRL.

I don't know that the presence of a CIDP necessary means that the CRL is
not a full CRL.  The original comment arose in the context of a CA that
was putting CIDP into their full CRLs.

> I think this was Kathleen, however based on comments from here. As I 
> understood (from Nelson), CRLs with critical CIDP extension fail to load 
> properly with NSS. Is this correct?

Yes.  And that's appropriate for partial CRLs.
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