On Fri, Jul 06, 2018 at 07:43:56AM +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> >>>>> On Thu, 5 Jul 2018, Michał Górny wrote:
> 
> > Replace the disjoint 'minimum' and 'recommendation' for expiration
> > with a single requirement. Make it 2 years. Also, remove disjoint
> > expiration recommendation for the primary key and subkeys since many
> > developers fail at implementing that anyway.
> 
> Still NACK. If expiration is exactly 2 years and renewal must happen
> 2 weeks before the expiry date, then it is not possible to keep the
> same date.
> 
> Example: The key will expire at 2018-12-31, so it must be renewed at
> 2018-12-17 or earlier. This will make it impossible to keep the same
> month and day (unless one would reset it to 2019-12-31, which is only
> one year though).
> 
> So please, make it something like 2 years + 3 months.
option a)
2 years + N:
2 weeks <= N <= 3 months.

option b)
Change the wording to be 'at most 2 years' instead of 'exactly 2 years'.

Separately:
Is two weeks enough time for a new key distribution to users?

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