In so far as it's not really a written rule, I wonder if what was described
here would really qualify in the same way?

This sounds less like it was about a customer amidst migration and more
like it was a "sell long validity cert on `credit` and collect payment over
cert lifetime".

On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 12:58 PM Jeremy Rowley <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Well yes, but actually no. Google has previously said CAs caught in
> behavior where revocation is used as a hammer on migrating customers would
> be penalized. Although Ryan Sleevi isn't with Google now, I assume that
> policy still stands. You can report bad acting CAs there. See
> https://groups.google.com/g/mozilla.dev.security.policy/c/nU1bIZ9LgjU/m/sJC8TtAgCAAJ
>
> It would be nice to see this rule actually canonized somewhere instead of
> it just being several old discussions on MDSP.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of Tavis Ormandy
> Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2022 11:24 AM
> To: Matthew Hardeman <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: BR revocation question
>
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 11:13:11AM -0500, Matthew Hardeman wrote:
> > Assuming that the subscriber agreement provided for an annual fee for
> > certificates issued under the agreement, or incorporated such
> > contractual terms with the subscriber, it seems like revocation for
> > privilegeWithdrawn would be the correct code.  It also appears that
> > Mozilla's new policy would allow for that in the bullet under
> > privilegeWithdrawn which reads "the CA operator is made aware that the
> > certificate subscriber has violated one or more of its material
> > obligations under the subscriber agreement or terms of use".
>
> I suppose so. It's dissapointing, it allows CAs to use revocation as a
> sabre to rattle to keep subscribers acquiescent.
>
> > Presumably the use case here is providing a certificate with max
> > permissible validity for ease of install/maintenance but billing for
> > said certificate on a subscription basis without requiring full
> > payment for the period up front?
>
> Sure, "protection racket" is such an ugly term :)
>
> Tavis.
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