Frank Hecker wrote:

> * For email certs the requirement should be something like "the CA must
> take reasonable measures to verify that the entity controls the email
> account associated with the certificate" and "CA must not knowingly
> issue certs to entities who do not control the associated accounts".
> (Again, we'll skip for now the issues of agents and what is "reasonable".)

Agents is a big one for email certificates, especially with things like
staff ID badges that are PKI cards as well, in this instance the domain
owner also becomes a sort of mini RA I guess... At least this is how
we're currently dealing with it...

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Best regards,
 Duane

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