Re: [certid] version -11

[Peter Saint-Andre <[e-mail]>]

On 11/27/10 8:52 AM, Paul Hoffman wrote:
> At 10:57 PM -0800 11/26/10, =JeffH wrote:
>> Thanks for the prompt review :)
>>
>>> - The sentence that was added to 2.3 beginning with "However..." needs clarification.
>>> Current:
>>>    However, the Common Name might contain a human-readable string for
>>>    the service, rather than a string whose form matches that of a fully-
>>>    qualified DNS domain name:
>>>
>>> Proposed:
>>>    However, the Common Name might contain a human-readable string for
>>>    the service, rather than a string whose form matches that of a fully-
>>>    qualified DNS domain name, and a certificate with such a Common Name
>>>    SHOULD have a subjectAltName that contains the fully-qualified domain
>>>    name:
>>
>> Nominally agree.
>>
>> Those sections (2.*) are effectively a non-normative, so perhaps the "SHOULD" ought to be "will typically".
> 
> Ah, I had missed that. "will typically" works for me.

In our working copy I now have:

   However, the Common Name might contain a human-readable string for
   the service, rather than a string whose form matches that of a fully-
   qualified DNS domain name (a certificate with such a Common Name will
   typically have at least one subjectAltName entry that contains the
   fully-qualified domain name):

Peter

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