Hi all, I've been putting off this conversation because it is doomed to become a bikeshed, but I am proposing to rename Applications to Orders.
The reason: ACME is intended, among other things, to simplify the certificate issuance and deployment process. That includes being accessible to people who don't have a lot of time to learn about the internals of ACME. The term "application" is heavily overloaded, and users might mistake it for the software used to access ACME. So saying "what is the URL for your application," for instance, could mean https://certbot.eff.org/ OR https://acme-v01.api.letsencrypt.org/application/123. I think "order" both captures the spirit intended by the new flow, and matches existing terminology at a lot of CAs. It has some homonyms, as in "order of operations," but I think those have low enough likelihood of confusion that it's okay. _______________________________________________ Acme mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/acme
