On Mon 2016-10-10 23:21:13 -0400, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> So it's not necessarily the PSL per se. But CABF is merely one example 
> of a potential policy, I suppose.

making matters more confusing, the PSL itself these days contains two
different values -- one of them related to PSL for the purposes of
cookie-setting, and the other one for X.509 certificate issuance.

As it says in the Divisions section of https://publicsuffix.org/list/ :

>> While some applications, such as browsers when considering
>> cookie-setting, treat all entries the same, other applications may
>> wish to treat ICANN domains and PRIVATE domains differently. For
>> example, Certification Authorities checking for wildcard misissuance
>> would not issue a "*.com" wildcard cert ("com" is in the ICANN
>> domains list) but could legitimately issue a "*.appspot.com" wildcard
>> cert to the domain owner, in this case Google ("appspot.com" is in
>> the PRIVATE domains list).

if only we'd managed to get DBOUND better focused we might have
something properly scalable to plug in here, alas :/ 

   --dkg

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