On Mon, 6 Jul 2020 at 19:30, Ryan Sleevi <r...@sleevi.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 1:22 PM Matthias van de Meent via dev-security-policy 
> <dev-security-policy@lists.mozilla.org> wrote:
>>
>> ...
>>
>> 1.) What was the reasoning behind not (also / specifically) allowing
>> an HTTPS url? Was there specific reasoning reasoning?
>
>
> Nope, no specific reasoning. The ambiguity here is whether it's resources 
> dereferenced via an HTTP protocol (which would include HTTP over TLS) or 
> whether it's HTTP schemed resources (which would not). The meaningful 
> distinction was to exclude other forms of scheme/protocols, such as LDAP 
> (inc. LDAPS) and FTP (inc. FTPS)
>
>>
>> 2.) Should this be fixed, or should the batch of certificates with an
>> http `certificatePolicies:policyQualifiers:qualifier:cPSuri` be
>> revoked as misissued?
>
>
> Yeah, this is something that was already flagged as part of the validation WG 
> work to clean up certificate profiles, in that there's other forms of 
> ambiguity here. For example, if one includes an HTTP(S) URL, can they also 
> include one of the undesirable schemes? How many CPS URIs can they include? 
> etc.
>

Great, thanks for the reply, and thanks for the concise information.
Then I shall await such update to the BR.

-Matthias
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