According to Josh, Comodo have filed for abandonment of their three related applications: https://letsencrypt.org/2016/06/23/defending-our-brand.html
On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 2:15 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > The following screenshot is from Comodo's forums. Either their forums have > been breached and the account of the CEO is being misused, or this is an > actual post from their CEO. > > https://imgur.com/7MfFBar > > Comodo's CEO seems to be claiming that they created the Let's Encrypt > brand and that it is ISRG that is misusing the trademark. From my knowledge > of the facts, I would be extremely surprised if that is actually true. > > The root inclusion guidelines are designed to ensure that only honest and > trustworthy organizations are included as CAs, and that they follow prudent > practices for assessing the identity of their subscribers. Accurate > assessment of who is entitled to trade under what name is a core comptency > of a CA. Failure to make this assessment correctly makes them unfit to > issue EV certificates, and possibly other certificate types too. > > One of either Comodo or ISRG seem to be conducting a phishing attack on > the other, and are using the legal system to make the attack even more > effective. I urge the community to examine if one of these companies has > violated our standards for inclusion. > > If it is ISRG, we should deny their request for inclusion. If it is > Comodo, we should remove their root from the trust list and/or remove the > EV trust bits. > > John > _______________________________________________ > dev-security-policy mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-security-policy > _______________________________________________ dev-security-policy mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-security-policy
