On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 01:23:49AM -0400, Ryan Sleevi via dev-security-policy 
wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 10:04 PM Matt Palmer via dev-security-policy
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 2. Make the cPSuri actually point to the relevant CPS
> 
> That doesn’t really capture what a CPS is. There can be many relevant CPSes
> to a single certificate, both for a single path and multiple paths. That’s
> literally how audits came to be - to support the model of multiple CPSes.
> 
> So a statement like “the relevant CPS” is going to be flawed, for better or
> worse. That’s a much bigger change to make (in how policies are managed).
> Despite the merits of forbidding the policy-based approach proposed by the
> ABA PAG, the problem reporting email is probably the least compelling
> reason for scrapping that :(
> 
> However, that seems moot if addressed as above?

I don't see the contradiction. CA could embed values like
https://ca.example/cps?serial=123abc and make sure that only documents
relevant to the certificate in question are listed.

This statement, snipped from above:

> This is exactly the sort of case CCADB is supremely positioned to solve,
> efficiently. In fact, all of these problems can be addressed by CCADB
> improvements, providing programmatically readable data while also making
> use of efficiencies and economies of scale.

makes me curious: do you think CCADB could be leveraged to provide such
a list? To make it recommended (or even mandatory) to link to CCADB-provided
query mechanism for such documents.


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