I'm fairly sure the BITSTRING datatype for signatures was chosen by the
PKCS working group, which at the time was a mostly self-selected group of
experts organized by RSA. It certainly wasn't chosen by IETF. The X509v3
extension format was chosen by the X.509 group of ITU/ISO.
Hindsight's 20/20.
/r$
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