Re: [lamps] CAA tree climbing, gurrghhg

Ryan Sleevi <ryan-ietf@sleevi.com> Sat, 07 October 2017 16:24 UTC

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From: Ryan Sleevi <ryan-ietf@sleevi.com>
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2017 12:24:41 -0400
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To: John R Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
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Subject: Re: [lamps] CAA tree climbing, gurrghhg
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On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 11:09 AM, John R Levine <johnl@taugh.com> wrote:

> One side effect of that is that there cannot be any loose ends. PSL is a
>> loose end.
>>
>
> Perhaps, but CAs already use it a zillion times a minute to decide what
> certs to issue.
>
> We debated the dbound problem at great length and then decided that it
>> doesn't matter. There are really only a few TLDs of any consequence and if
>> they did something silly, we can vote to unsilly as a special case. And
>> since they know that, it is unlikely folk will be silly.
>>
>
> It would not be silly for Verisign to put a CAA at com. saying it has no
> certs at all.  But it would be extremely silly for CAs to apply that CAA to
> 2LDs or 3LDs under .com.
>

I don't think that's the same meaning. I think, especially in the world of
gTLDs, it's both reasonable and sensible to allow CAA records at the TLD,
and there's no need for the public suffix list concerns. At best, such
problems are business problems - not technology problems.

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Re: [lamps] Next steps on CAA Phillip Hallam-Baker
Re: [lamps] Next steps on CAA Jacob Hoffman-Andrews
Re: [lamps] Next steps on CAA John R Levine
Re: [lamps] Next steps on CAA Jacob Hoffman-Andrews
Re: [lamps] Next steps on CAA John R Levine
[lamps] CAA tree climbing, gurrghhg John R Levine
Re: [lamps] Next steps on CAA Phillip Hallam-Baker
Re: [lamps] CAA tree climbing, gurrghhg Phillip Hallam-Baker
Re: [lamps] CAA tree climbing, gurrghhg John R Levine
Re: [lamps] CAA tree climbing, gurrghhg Ryan Sleevi
Re: [lamps] CAA tree climbing, gurrghhg John R Levine
Re: [lamps] CAA tree climbing, gurrghhg Phillip Hallam-Baker
Re: [lamps] Next steps on CAA John Levine
Re: [lamps] Next steps on CAA Phillip Hallam-Baker
Re: [lamps] Next steps on CAA John R Levine
Re: [lamps] Next steps on CAA Phillip Hallam-Baker
Re: [lamps] Next steps on CAA John R Levine