On 7/8/21 9:02 AM, Alexey Melnikov wrote:
> Hi Rich,
> 
> On 08/07/2021 15:12, Salz, Rich wrote:
>>
>> A discussion started on the GitHub repo
>> https://github.com/richsalz/draft-ietf-uta-rfc6125bis
>> <https://github.com/richsalz/draft-ietf-uta-rfc6125bis> about what is
>> allowed for the wildcard character, such as in DNS entries in
>> subjectAltName.  I am about to publish a new draft which takes the old
>> adopted “diff” version and does a full version of 6125. The current
>> draft says that a wildcard may be the first, or only, character in the
>> left-most DNS name.
>>
>>  
>>
>> Brian Smith and Ryan Sleevi started a discussion on the PR
>> https://github.com/richsalz/draft-ietf-uta-rfc6125bis/pull/1#discussion_r663206174
>> <https://github.com/richsalz/draft-ietf-uta-rfc6125bis/pull/1#discussion_r663206174>
>> recommending that the doc should be the **only** character.  For
>> example, *.apps.example.com is okay, but *apps.example.com is not.
>>
>>  
>>
>> I’d like to know what the WG thinks.  As we’re not really using GitHub
>> for discussion, please comment on this list.
>>
> I think only "*.apps.example.com" was intended, so I am in favour of
> this change.

When we published RFC 6125 (see §6.4.3), we weren't able to get that
far, but I agree that this would be best.

Peter

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