When the ballot said "... would result in a valid domain label", does it mean that "... would result in a valid domain name of the applicant, that has passed the same level of domain authorization (DV, OV, EV) check?
Secondly, is it necessary for CAs to state their practice of handling underscore domain name in CPS? - Man Ho On 11/13/2018 7:18 AM, Wayne Thayer via dev-security-policy wrote: > As you may be aware, the CA/Browser Forum recently passed ballot SC12 [1] > creating a sunset period for TLS certificates containing an underscore > ("_") character in the SAN. This practice was widespread until a year ago > when it was pointed out that underscore characters are not permitted in > dNSName name forms, and ballot 202 was proposed to create an exception to > RFC 5280 that would allow the practice to continue. When that ballot > failed, some CAs stopped allowing underscore characters in SANs and others > continued. Ballot SC12 is intended to resolve this inconsistency and > provide clear guidance to auditors. > > The sunset period defined by ballot SC12 is very short. Today Mozilla sent > an email to all CAs in our program informing them of this change and asking > them to take any steps necessary to comply [2]. > > - Wayne > > [1] > https://cabforum.org/2018/11/12/ballot-sc-12-sunset-of-underscores-in-dnsnames/ > [2] > https://wiki.mozilla.org/CA/Communications#November_2018_CA_Communication_.28Underscores_in_dNSNames.29 > _______________________________________________ > dev-security-policy mailing list > dev-security-policy@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-security-policy _______________________________________________ dev-security-policy mailing list dev-security-policy@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-security-policy