2012/2/8 Jacob Appelbaum <[email protected]> > On 02/07/2012 05:52 PM, Erwann ABALEA wrote: > > 2012/2/7 Jacob Appelbaum <[email protected]> > > [...] > > > >>> As was pointed out, this cert was issued in 2010. The CAB Forum has > >>> addressed the issuance of SSL certs to non FQDNs in the baseline > >>> requirements which were recently adopted. > >>> > >> > >> Is it true that the new requirements won't come into effect until 2016? > > > > Any CA can choose to apply these requirements now. For some of them, it's > > easy, since they never produced such certificates. > > Such certificates were listed in "Problematic practices" in the Mozilla > CA > > Policy, but tolerated. Kind of a grey zone. > > > > The delay until 2016 is a compromise so all implied actors can find a > > different solution for their own problems. > > Compromise indeed. >
Wrong translation. "Compromis" in french is translated either as "compromise" or "trade-off", depending on the meaning. -- Erwann.
