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Re: [certid] additional security consideration

Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com> Thu, 18 March 2010 19:54 UTC

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Joe Orton wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 07:07:31AM +0300, ArkanoiD wrote:
>> Second level domain MUST NOT be wildcarded, thus *.com is invalid and should
>> never match. (as well as "*", of course)
> 
> I don't think it's appropriate for the draft to specify any requirement 
> beyond the "left-most label" rule, so far as wildcards go.  I could 
> imagine a "*.local" or similar could be useful to allow, and *.com is 
> really little more dangerous than *.co.uk.

Good point with *.co.uk but I'd draw the opposite conclusion from it:
I'd rather like to see wildcards forbidden completely or at least strongly
discouraged.

Ciao, Michael.

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