[cabfpub] Naming rules

Ryan Sleevi sleevi at google.com
Sat Mar 25 19:53:25 UTC 2017


On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 3:38 PM, Peter Bowen <pzb at amzn.com> wrote:

> Who cares if there are collisions in cert subjects?  We already have that
> possibility and this doesn’t really change that.
>

Can you provide an example using the current validation requirements? I
would think that the need for names to be meaningful and the validation
procedures would exist to disambiguate these names by using a unique (for
purpose) construction.


> Would it help if we moved the Subject Identified requirements to an
> overlay guideline such that the BRs only covered Internet-scope validation
> (e.g. just dNSName, ipAddress, SRVName, and maybe rfc822Address)?
>

And commonName
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