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[Anima] on certification authorities.

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Fri, 26 June 2020 21:56 UTC

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Subject: [Anima] on certification authorities.
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Russ Housley <housley@vigilsec.com> wrote:
    > Thank you.  Many people get it wrong, but X.509 and RFC 5280 (as well
    > as the earlier versions in RFC 2459 and RFC 3280) all use
    > {CA=} "certification authority".

I guess it might be worth spreading this point more widely :-)
I'll all for stamping out the wrong expansions, even if it sometimes seems pendantic.

I'm told that Google is about to start their Cloud *Certificate* Authority.
If that happens, I believe that any chance to assert the term will be
completely lost :-)

On the other hand, if they go with "certification authority", then perhaps
the tide of the terminology will be reversed.

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Michael Richardson <mcr+IETF@sandelman.ca>, Sandelman Software Works
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