[cabfpub] Naming rules

Mon Mar 27 13:40:02 UTC 2017

Li-Chun,

It was good to see you last week.  We have discussed this for many months (https://cabforum.org/pipermail/policyreview/2016-January/000207.html is the first email I can find on this, which si from January 2016).

I do not think further discussion will help here.  The core question is whether the Forum wants to continue require providing postal addressing information in the Subject Name, with the full understanding that multiple independent unrelated entities may have the same Name.  Alternatively, the question is whether the Forum believes that accepting existing DITs (and associated CAs) without modification is a desired policy or whether existing DITs (and associated CAs) should be required to modify their operations to come into compliance.

Given this has continued for over a year, I strongly suggest that Chunghwa Telecom propose a ballot.  If the ballot either cannot get endorsers or fails a vote, we should consider this issue resolved.

Thanks,
Peter

> On Mar 27, 2017, at 6:27 AM, 陳立群 via Public <public at cabforum.org> wrote:
> 
> Dimitris,
>  
>        In Taiwan, according our Company Act, the company name must be unique for the whole country
> http://law.moj.gov.tw/Eng/LawClass/LawAll.aspx?PCode=J0080001
>  
> Please see  Company Act article 18, such as “No company may use a corporate name which is identical with that of another company. “
>  
> There will be no two companies with the same name such as  “ABC company” in Taiwan.       
>  
>      But what about in other country? Is it allowed two company with same company name in Greece?
>  
>       In Taiwan, a corporation can be registered at country-level but can also be register at city/county-level.  If there is a country-level corporation named “Farmer’s Association” of which physical address is located in Taipei City, with current Subject DN rule of BR, its Subject DN will be “C=TW, L=Taipei City, O=Farmer’s Association”.  
>  
>      However, if there is also a city/county-level “Farmer’s Association” in Taipei City, its Subject DN will also be “C=TW, L=Taipei City, O=Farmer’s Association”.   How do you distinguish them by DN?
>  
>     So a better way is to let DN of the  corporation that registered at country-level be C=TW, O=Farmer’s Association
>       
>      And let DN of the  corporation that registered at city/county-level be
> C=TW, L=Taipei City, O=Farmer’s Association
>  
>     Please see Annex B of ITU-T X.521 (Suggested name form and Directory information tree structures),   Please note path 1 -> 3, it suggests that there is no need to include a Locality attribute in the directory name for a corporation registered at country-level.  
>  
>       We hope you can support Wen-Cheng’s  https://cabforum.org/pipermail/public/2017-March/010123.html
>  
> to add a sub-section k under the section 7.1.4.2.2 Subject Distinguished Nam Fields as follows:
>  
> 7.1.4.2.2 Subject Distinguished Nam Fields
> ……
> k. Accepting X.500 Directory Naming Conventions of Existing PKIs
> For PKIs where the X.500 directory naming conventions are adopted for subject distinguished names, the existing naming rules of those PKIs are acceptable if the following conditions are satisfied:
>  
> i. the naming rules can unambiguously identify the subject; and
>  
> ii. only commonly-used naming attributes recommended by RFC 5280, RFC 3739, or ETSI EN 319 412 are used in the naming rules.
>  
>    or support Ben’s version as https://cabforum.org/pipermail/public/2017-March/010215.html  that
>  
> adding the following sentence(s) to sections on localityName and stateOrProvinceName of SSL BR:
>  
> This field is also optional if the organization is uniquely identifiable by registration in a national-government-adopted X.500 directory that does not contain the [localityName/stateOrProvinceName] attribute.
>  
>  
>     Please discuss. Thanks.
>  
>        Li-Chun Chen
>  
> From: Public [mailto:public-bounces at cabforum.org] On Behalf Of Dimitris Zacharopoulos via Public
> Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2017 10:21 PM
> To: public at cabforum.org
> Cc: Dimitris Zacharopoulos
> Subject: [外部郵件] Re: [cabfpub] Naming rules
>  
> If both companies "ABC" are located in the same city, then with current rules, there will be a DN collision, right? I don't think you can avoid that with the current BRs.
> 
> Dimitris.
> 
> On 22/3/2017 3:56 μμ, Jeremy Rowley via Public wrote:
>> Correct. For #5 to be true, #3 must be true (which is still unclear), and OV must represent jurisdiction of incorporation (which it doesn’t). 
>>  
>> From: Ryan Sleevi [mailto:sleevi at google.com] 
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2017 7:33 AM
>> To: CA/Browser Forum Public Discussion List <public at cabforum.org>
>> Cc: Gervase Markham <gerv at mozilla.org>; Jeremy Rowley <jeremy.rowley at digicert.com>
>> Subject: Re: [cabfpub] Naming rules
>>  
>>  
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>> On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 9:30 AM, Jeremy Rowley via Public <public at cabforum.org> wrote:
>>> There's one important item that seems unclear to me. What I took from reading Li Chun's message:
>>> 
>>> 1)      Taiwan has a country-level registration
>>> 2)      Taiwan has a city-level registration
>>> 3)      The two are not mutually exclusive (ie ABC Company at the country level might be a completely different entity than ABC Company at the city level)
>>> 4)      You want the BRs to distinguish whether the ABC Company was registered with the country of Taiwan vs. a city registration.
>>> 5)      If locality is included in a cert, the actions of ABC Company (country) could be falsely attributed to the ABC Company (local)
>>> 
>>> I can't tell if #3 is true. If it is, then I can see why we'd want to make the change. If #3 is not true, then the change is only for convenience in Taiwan.
>>  
>> #5 is true if and only if we view OV information to indicate jurisdiction of incorporation. If it indicates physical address, then #5 is not true, correct? 
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