On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Kim Alvefur <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 2015-12-15 15:55, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 9:39 AM, Salz, Rich <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>> There's SRVName from https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4985 which in
> theory
> >>> already can be applied to https already.  SRVNames are used in the XMPP
> >>> world a lot, maybe other places as well.
> >>
> >> But you can't put a SRVName in a certificate SAN field, can you?
> >
> >
> > Actually you can. The SRV label is simply a DNS name. That is arguably
> the
> > only way that you can legitimately create service specific certs in the
> > WebPKI.
>
> Almost, but SRVname has its own OID, so it's not the same as a DNSName.
>  But they live among the other SAN fields.
>

Its worth re-reading the RFC.

https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4985.txt

The reason for introducing a separate OID seems to have been wanting to
drop the protocol component which simplifies things a lot for name
constraints.
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