Entrust votes Yes to ballot 199.

Bruce.

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Subject: [EXTERNAL]Re: [cabfpub] Ballot 199 - Require commonName in Root and 
Intermediate Certificates

Following discussion on the call today, there is a minor edit to this
ballot:

On 25/04/17 16:03, Gervase Markham wrote:
> 7.1.4.3.1 Subject Distinguished Name Fields
> 
> Certificate Field: subject:commonName (OID 2.5.4.3)
> Required/Optional: Required
> Contents: This field MUST be present and the contents MUST be an 
> identifier

--> change the second MUST to a SHOULD. (Which means this should be
normal practice, but you can do something different if you have a good reason 
and know what you are doing.) Later, this may be replaced (in another ballot) 
with a MUST plus a set of known sensible use case exceptions.

> for the certificate such that the certificate's Name is unique across 
> all certificates issued by the issuing certificate.

Gerv

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