Re: [cabfpub] Policy Review Working Group Discussion on Terminology

[Adriano Santoni]

+1 Il 26/02/2016 00:00, Ben Wilson ha scritto: During this morning’s working group call (and as a continuation of what we discussed at the last face-to-face meeting), we decided to update some of the terminology used in the CA/Browser Forum’s guideline documents.  The purpose of this email is to see whether there is general consensus on the Working Group’s approach before we dive in and create redlined versions of the documents, which would be created in the following order and presented to the Forum by separate ballots. 1.       Where the intent of the guidelines is to discuss the end entity subscriber, as opposed to an intermediate CA subscriber, replace the word “subscriber” with the phrase “end entity”.  During this process, we may need to consider how we use the term “Applicant” and “Subject.”  For example, when a certificate is issued, what does the “Applicant” become if not a Subscriber?  2.       Where the intent of the guidelines is to discuss the entity that operates a certification authority, replace the word CA with the phrase “certification service provider”, CSP, or similar.  How do people feel about that? The working group felt that the term “CA” should be reserved to refer to the system that can issue certificates because the basic constraints extension of its certificate contains “CA equals true”. 3.       We also hope to standardize on usages of the terms “Intermediate CA” vs. “Subordinate CA” (and possibly address other similar or related concepts in the same ballot). Thoughts? Ben   _______________________________________________ Public mailing list Public@cabforum.org https://cabforum.org/mailman/listinfo/public -- Adriano Santoni

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