* Richard Barnes:

> I've been doing some research on the potential benefits of adding name
> constraints into the Mozilla root program.  I've drafted an initial
> proposal and put it on a wiki page:
>
> https://wiki.mozilla.org/CA:NameConstraints
>
> Questions and comments are very welcome.

A PKIX-compliant implementation of Name Constraints is not effective
in the browser PKI because these constraints are not applied to the
Common Name.

NSS used to be non-compliant (and deliberately so), so the constraints
do work there, but I don't know if that's still the case.
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