Hi,

> On 02/06/2012 04:58 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
>> I can't remember when we started having conversations about blocking
>> use of non domain domains in certs, things like localhost. But I am
>> pretty sure we did not actually have agreement on stopping them that
>> would have been active in August 2010.
> 
> Do you think we have consensus on this point now?  If so, it seems to me
> that an agreeing CA should express that conclusion by revoking any
> outstanding certificates whose names don't match the known DNS.
> 
> It doesn't appear to me that Verisign has done so with this certificate.
> 
>       --dkg

Eddy Nigg of Startcom tells me it is part of the BR1 requirements by the
CABForum. Their effect is not retroactive, however.

Ralph

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Dipl.-Inform. Ralph Holz
I8: Network Architectures and Services
Technische Universität München
http://www.net.in.tum.de/de/mitarbeiter/holz/

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