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This document was attempting to clarifys and extends the meaning of Composite Attester from RFC9334. It has since been moved into the RATS wiki, and this I-D serves as a tombstone.¶
A system of annotated diagram components is defined as a small language to explain the different ways that components can interact to form composites.¶
These diagram components are then used to define a few popular classes of composites.¶
This note is to be removed before publishing as an RFC.¶
Status information for this document may be found at https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-richardson-rats-composite-attesters/.¶
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This document was attempting to clarify and extend the meaning of Composite Attester from [RFC9334], Section 3.3.¶
This work has been moved into the RATS wiki at: https://wiki.ietf.org/group/rats/atomic-composites¶
There are none.¶
Jun Zhang contributed the terms "Le Petit" and "Le Grand" to qualify Verifier, the original thought for Class 5 Composite Atteser and the description of the Nonce architecture.¶