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Re: [certid] open issue: wildcards in component fragments

Matt McCutchen <matt@mattmccutchen.net> Fri, 08 October 2010 01:16 UTC

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To: Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im>
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Subject: Re: [certid] open issue: wildcards in component fragments
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On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 15:26 -0600, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> The intended status of this document is BCP = Best Current Practice.
> That "B" is in there for a reason. The question is: does allowing *oo
> and f*o and foo* (and maybe even f*b*r) as wildcard fragments truly
> represent a "best" current practice, or only "current" practice? It
> doesn't strike me as a most excellent, effective, desirable, suitable,
> appropriate, or useful practice, although I freely grant that it is in
> common and general use at the present time.

Is it?  I have never seen a certificate with a wildcard that is not a
whole label on a public web site.

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Matt

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