On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 9:22 PM Nick Lamb via dev-security-policy <
dev-security-policy@lists.mozilla.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 8 Feb 2021 13:40:05 -0500
> Andrew Ayer via dev-security-policy
> <dev-security-policy@lists.mozilla.org> wrote:
>
> > The BRs permit CAs to bypass CAA checking for a domain if "the CA or
> > an Affiliate of the CA is the DNS Operator (as defined in RFC 7719)
> > of the domain's DNS."
>
> Hmm. Would this exemption be less dangerous for a CA which is the
> Registry for the TLD ?


Potentially, but that’s not the use case for why this exists. Recall that
Registry != Registrar here, and even then, the Operator may be distinct
from either of those two. The use case argued was not limited to “just”
gTLDs.

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