While I don’t feel strongly about it, it seems to me the term “streetAddress” 
is different than the word “Address”, and normally would not include city, 
state, or country.  Just the address on the street.

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Subject: [EXTERNAL]Re: [cabfpub] streetAddress


Here is an example:       (please note: it's a fake one, generated via an 
on-line fake address generator)

O=ACME SA
STREET=38, Place Charles de Gaulle, 76600 Le Havre, France
L=Le Havre
ST=Seine-Maritime
C=FR
In the above example, streetAddress not only contains a street name and house 
number, but other info as well, including the locality (already specified in 
the separate localityName attribute) and the country (already specified in the 
separate countryName attribute), and a postal code that should probably be 
moved elsewhere (e.g. in the specific postalCode attribute, if used).

It is quite obvious, in the above example, that the address information are 
consistent, overall. The question I am asking is: is this way of populating 
streetAddress okay, from a compliance point of view?

Does anybody think that such a certificate should be regarded as non-conformant 
to the BRs ?

Adriano


Il 18/05/2017 00:04, Geoff Keating ha scritto:

On 17 May 2017, at 3:08 am, Adriano Santoni via Public 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

All, would like some opinions about the following question:
Can it be considered "okay" if the streetAddress component of an OV (or EV) 
certificate Subject contains some more information than it's strictly specified 
(or, more exactly, exemplified) in ITU-T X.520 ?

ITU-T X.520 (aka ISO/IEC 9594-6) reads:
"The Street Address attribute type specifies a site for the local distribution 
and physical delivery in a postal address,
i.e., the street name, place, avenue and house number"

For instance, how would you consider a street Address that, in addition to 
street name and house number, also contains a country name: compliant? 
non-compliant? of dubious compliance?

Can you give an example?

I think the most likely outcome is that the address is simply wrong—not 
non-compliant, but not referring to the intended or actual address.

In many cases with complex or weird postal addresses, it is probably preferable 
to use the postalAddress component instead, which gives you 6 lines (alas 
limited to 30 characters each).


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Cordiali saluti,

Adriano Santoni
ACTALIS S.p.A.
(Aruba Group)
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