>   1.  The certificate MUST include a "DNS-ID" (i.e., a subjectAltName
>       identifier of type dNSName).

. . .

>   Therefore, if and only if the identity set does not include
>   subjectAltName extensions of type dNSName, SRVName, or
>   uniformResourceIdentifier (or any application-specific subjectAltName
>   extensions supported by the client), the client MAY as a fallback
>   check for a fully-qualified DNS domain name in the last Common Name
>   RDN in the sequence of RDNs making up the Distinguished Name within
>   the certificate's subjectName (where the term "last" refers to the
>   DER order, which is often not the string order presented to a user;
>   the order that is applied here MUST be the DER order).

Bzzzzzt! All of 3.4.4 is bogus, given that DNS-ID is required. Please remove it.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium
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