That’s fine.  How would you like it broken up? I could break it up by 
validation method or by issue statement. 

 

From: Ryan Sleevi [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2017 10:06 AM
To: Jeremy Rowley <[email protected]>
Cc: CA/Browser Forum Public Discussion List <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [cabfpub] Domain validation

 

 

 

On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 11:55 AM, Jeremy Rowley <[email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: 

1) The document is presented as a ballot because I based the revisions on 190.  
If there are discrete sub-components someone doesn’t like, I don’t mind 
breaking it up into chunks.  

 

The problem is not about 'not liking'. It's about a tremendous amount of text 
that tries to solve a whole host of issues, all at once, and without clear 
identification of the goals or related changes. This makes it incredibly 
difficult to review, and all the more likely of a Ballot 193/197 problem being 
introduced. Further, the approach to creating the ballot creates issues like 
recently discovered by Ben in Ballot 198, in which the 'proposed text' and the 
'redlined version' actually substantially differed from what was actually 
adopted (more on that for another thread).

 

It's not that I disagree with your goals - I think you've captured some very 
useful things to do. I'm just not sure there's any reasonable hope that we'd be 
confident it was appropriately reviewed, especially in light of the substantive 
discussion re: Ballot 190 that still needs adoption, and because of that, makes 
it very hard to consider voting in favor. This is, for what it's worth, notably 
similar to some of the subordinate CA discussions.

 

While that comes across negative (and almost certainly would be reflected in a 
vote, should it come to that), I'm incredibly thrilled that someone such as 
yourself has taken a comprehensive look at it, and I'm thrilled that you've 
found and identified issues. Just the means of attempting to fix them is 
perhaps less than ideal, and much like I'd send back an overly complex code 
review back to the submitter as "overly complex; simplify", I'm trying to 
figure out if there's a way to tease out the issues or look at incrementalist 
approaches here.

 

This is why even with a 'small' change (the OCSP profile), which only removes a 
few lines of text, I tried to extensively annotate the reasonings behind each 
change, the dependencies, and their relationship - see 
https://github.com/sleevi/cabforum-docs/pull/2

 

I'm also not sure I'd agree with some of your problem statements, so that's 
where helping identify what you see as the problem can sort out an appropriate 
solution :)

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