[Smcwg-public] [Servercert-wg] [EXTERNAL] Re: orgID - Government entities

Fri Apr 14 16:43:58 UTC 2023

Yes, the language here was added rather quickly and was written with the United States in mind, as the original draft language did not consider countries that register organizations primarily at the subdivision level.  That’s how the incorrect assumption that ISO 3166-2 subdivisions are always two letters snuck in.

-Tim

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Subject: Re: [Servercert-wg] [Smcwg-public] [EXTERNAL] Re: orgID - Government entities

  *   I think it correctly states ISO 3166-2 but it incorrectly assumes that the subdivision has a length of two.

Looks like this is an error that was originally introduced in the EVGs for orgID. EVG 9.2.8 says:

“For the NTR Registration Scheme identifier, if required under Section 9.2.4, a 2 character ISO
3166‐2 identifier for the subdivision (state or province) of the nation in which the Registration
Scheme is operated, preceded by plus “+” (0x2B (ASCII), U+002B (UTF‐8));”

We should fix that too (CC’ing servercert-wg).

Thanks,
Corey

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Subject: Re: [Smcwg-public] [EXTERNAL] Re: orgID - Government entities

ISO 3166-1 is the country code
ISO 3166-2 is the subdivision code

S/MIME BR 7.1.4.2.2.d. Note 2 states:
“For Government Entities, the CA SHALL enter the Registration Scheme identifier ‘GOV’ followed by the 2 character ISO 3166 country code for the nation in which the Government Entity is located. If the Government Entity is verified at a subdivision (state or province) level, then a plus “+” (0x2B (ASCII), U+002B (UTF‐8)) followed by a 2 character ISO 3166‐2 identifier for the subdivision is added.”

I think it correctly states ISO 3166-2 but it incorrectly assumes that the subdivision has a length of two.

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Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [Smcwg-public] orgID - Government entities

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It should be ISO 3166-1 for the alpha-2 character code. This was probably an oversight.

Stephen, is this something we could add to the upcoming ballot with fixes?

Thanks,
Dimitris.
On 30/3/2023 8:24 μ.μ., Bruce Morton via Smcwg-public wrote:

Sorry I missed the call yesterday.

I am hoping the QIIS item can be added to the erratum. In addition, we have the following observation.

S/MIME BR 7.1.4.2.2.d. Note 2 states, “For Government Entities, the CA SHALL enter the Registration Scheme identifier ‘GOV’ followed by the 2 character ISO 3166 country code for the nation in which the Government Entity is located. If the Government Entity is verified at a subdivision (state or province) level, then a plus “+” (0x2B (ASCII), U+002B (UTF‐8)) followed by a 2 character ISO 3166‐2 identifier for the subdivision is added.”

The wording is complicated as there are no 2 character 3166-2 identifiers as they start with the 2 character country code plus a hyphen. For California the code is US-CA, but we expect the result for the orgID to be GOVUS+CA and not GOVUS+US-CA. For Czechia, they append 2 or 3 numerals such as CZ-201. I assume we want to show GOVCZ+201 (see https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:code:3166:CZ<https://url.avanan.click/v2/___https:/urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.iso.org/obp/ui/*iso:code:3166:CZ__;Iw!!FJ-Y8qCqXTj2!e0mTl4p5JfttNo888kNqKGAYUo36SuEiHjGLrpS8kHZi56mAxJeRhKRClNow_FwG3tPs0DB9mFkeja72a6LgFMAIKNAJknQ-3TI$___.YXAzOmRpZ2ljZXJ0OmE6bzo2MTE3N2FjYjk4NmNhZjZiMTBlYzdkYzljNWViMjc1MTo2OmQyZWM6NjQyYTUxNGRkMjI4OTdmNTRkNWFkOWE1MzM1MmYwZThjM2FlYmYzNDNlNzgwZjE0NjJkZjk0MTMwODFjODMwYTpoOkY>), but this is adding more than 2 characters.

I am not sure how to state this but I think we want these examples:

OrgID GOVUS based on ISO 3166-1 US indicator

OrgID GOVUS+CA based on ISO 3166-1 US indicator and ISO3166-2 US-CA indicator

OrgID GOV CZ+201 based on ISO 3166-1 CZ indicator and ISO3166-2 CZ-201 indicator

So could we add this to a clarification ballot and change “followed by a 2 character ISO 3166‐2 identifier for the subdivision added” to “followed by the ISO 3166-2 additional characters identified for the subdivision added”? Then provide the examples.

Thanks, Bruce.
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