On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 11:03 PM, cbonnell--- via dev-security-policy <dev-security-policy@lists.mozilla.org> wrote: > On Tuesday, April 24, 2018 at 4:33:24 PM UTC-4, Henri Sivonen wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 10:18 PM, Jeremy Rowley via >> dev-security-policy <dev-security-policy@lists.mozilla.org> wrote: >> > That is correct. We use transliteration of non-latin names through a system >> > recognized by ISO per Appendix D(1)(3) >> >> But "Säästöpankkiliitto osk" is not a non-Latin name! (It is a >> non-ASCII name.) Also, no such transliteration is applied to >> "Ålandsbanken Abp", so evidently there's no technical necessity for >> transforming the name. >> >> Clearly, D(1) does not apply (the name is not non-Latin). D(2) doesn't >> make sense (it doesn't make sense to Romanize a Latin-script name). >> D(3) is about *translated* names (the organization has translated >> names [in Swedish and in English], but the name on the certificate is >> neither of those). >> >> -- >> Henri Sivonen >> hsivo...@hsivonen.fi >> https://hsivonen.fi/ > > Although the EV Guidelines don’t explicitly state this, I think it’s > reasonable to interpret the EV Guidelines’s use of “Latin characters” as the > characters comprising the ISO basic Latin alphabet > (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO basic Latin_alphabet) or the characters in > the Basic Latin Unicode Block > (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Latin_(Unicode_block)).
That's not at all clear from the text of the document. If the document means Basic Latin, it ought to say so instead of saying Latin. > Since the original Organization Name contains characters outside that > alphabet/code block, it is reasonable to interpret Appendix D as being > applicable to these Finnish organization names. Is there a system with higher priority than a lawyer or accountant asserting things that meets the criteria under D 1. (2) and results in the transformation that's seen in the certificate? -- Henri Sivonen hsivo...@hsivonen.fi https://hsivonen.fi/ _______________________________________________ dev-security-policy mailing list dev-security-policy@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-security-policy
