Document: draft-turner-clearancesponsor-attribute-01.txt Clearance Sponsor Attribute Reviewer: Joel M. Halpern Review Date: 3-August-2009 IETF LC End Date: 14-August-2009 IESG Telechat date: N/A Summary: This document is almost ready for publication as an Informational RFC. Minor issues: In trying to balance versatility and specificity, the introduction states that the attribute defined in this document may be used in X, Y, or "locations that support attributes." Given that almost all our protocols support "attributes" for some meaning of the word, I think a somewhat better description is called for. It may just suffice to say "locations or protocols that support ASN.1 definitions of attributes of entities which may conceptually have been cleared by (some suitable words)." (Yes, I see that RFC 3281bis uses the same terminology. It seems confusing to me.) Nits/editorial comments: Is it really true that world-wide clearances can always be sponsored by only one entity? The restriction to one value seems to be a policy statement about a particular approach, so I wonder if it is correct to capture that in the object definition? Or is this a US Government only definition? (It doesn't say that, so I am assuming it has broader applicability than that.)