Francesco Sordi wrote:
> The organizationIdentifier attribute would become very used in the very recent
> future, for PKIs implementation in Europe. Qualified CA would use thtat attribute for
> legal person certificate. In the ETSI documents, it would be something like
> organizationName, but different from it. Teoretically would be something of more
> distinctive for the organization, i.e. the VAT number with the county code. By this, I
> think it could not be such an internal definition for a company.

I don't want to sound rude but my impression is that this will lead to yet another
attribute with undefined semantics. BTDT.

(Hint: E.g. not every company (legal person) has a EU VAT number.)