CFCA accept Peter’s suggested solution on ballot 202.

 

Regards.

 

Zhang Yi

China Financial Certification Authority 

发件人: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] 代表 
zhangyq via Public
发送时间: 2017年8月1日 14:53
收件人: Kirk Hall; CA/Browser Forum Public Discussion List
主题: [cabfpub] 回复: Ballot 202 and Unicode

 

We confirm that GDCA accept Peter’s sugguested solution on ballot 202.

Thanks.

 

Yongqiang ZHANG

 

 原始邮件  

发件人: Kirk Hall via Public<[email protected]>

收件人: public<[email protected]>

发送时间: 2017年8月1日(周二) 08:01

主题: [cabfpub] Ballot 202 and Unicode

 

Thanks for your email, Yongqiang.  

 

It looks like GDCA can accept Peter Bowen’s suggested solution to this issue – 
can you please confirm that?

 

Can the representatives of CFCA and SHECA also review Peter’s suggested 
solution below, and let other Forum members know if you can also accept the 
suggested solution?

 

If yes, Peter can then add the language changes to a new ballot he is working 
on to update our BR definitions.

 

Thanks to you all.

 

Kirk Hall

 

From: zhangyq [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2017 4:08 AM
To: public <[email protected]>
Cc: Kirk Hall <[email protected]>; pzb <[email protected]>
Subject: [EXTERNAL]回复:Unicode

 

Hi All,

 

Thanks for the attention and work on our concerns.

 

We are deeply sorry for the fact that we have planned to issue certificates 
with Chinese Domain Names but not one certificate of this kind has been issued, 
and this is also why we failed to notice and raise our concerns during the 
discussion period, apart from that, it took us quite some time during the 
voting period to discuss these concerns internally, and no consensus was 
reached until the last day before the voting period ends. We apologize for the 
inconvenience caused to you.    

 

We wish to restate our reasons for voting against Ballot 202 here:

1. From the perspective of certificates localization, most of the Browsers 
support certificates in local languages;

2. And from the security point of view, there is not a simple and 
straightforward method or mechanism for the Browser users to verify the 
consistency between the Domain Names being accessed and Punycode encoded Domain 
Names, therefore, it is not possible for Browser users to determine that the 
certificate is issued to the Domain Name being accessed, and this will lead to 
the distrust from the users;

3. Certificates subscribers may be confused by the Punycode codes in the 
certificates converted from their Domain Names.  

 

Regarding the solutions that we think will address these issues:

1. We agree with Peter’s proposal, and we quote from his comments “I saw Ryan’s 
response to you and he suggests that "consistent and unambiguous 
representation” is needed in the common name.  Based on testing the 20,055 
certificates, it looks like we can have this by allowing a CA to choose to 
either use all LDH labels in a common name or use only NR-LDH labels and 
U-labels, where the U-labels are created by converting the A-labels to Unicode. 
 This would give the option of two consistent and unambiguous representations — 
one in punycode and one in Unicode”.

2. Another solution that we propose is that, for Non-English Domain Names, the 
CN field of an SSL certificate adopts Unicode, while the combination of Unicode 
and Punycode applies to each and every Domain Name in the SAN field, to 
consider both machine recognition and recognition by human reading.

 

Thanks.

 

Yongqiang ZHANG

 

 原始邮件  

发件人: Kirk Hall< <mailto:[email protected]> 
[email protected]>

收件人: '赵改侠'< <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]>; zhangyq< 
<mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]>; xiongyuanyuan< 
<mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]>

抄送: Chris Bailey< <mailto:[email protected]> 
[email protected]>

发送时间: 2017年7月27日(周四) 13:30

主题: Unicode

 

Hi, everyone – as you know, Ballot 202 did not pass, but it will come back.

 

See the potential solution that Peter Bowen of Amazon has proposed on your 
issue.  Is this a good idea?  Could you live with it in a new ballot?  You can 
ask questions of Peter if you want to…

 

Kirk

 

From: Peter Bowen [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2017 5:05 PM
To: Kirk Hall <[email protected]>; CA/Browser Forum Public 
Discussion List <[email protected]>
Subject: [EXTERNAL]Re: [cabfpub] Ballot 202 - Underscore and Wildcard Characters

 

Kirk,

 

In order for any browser to access a website with an Internationalized Domain 
Name, it must be able to convert Unicode (i.e. non-English language) to 
LDH-labels (i.e. punycode), as it is LDH labels that are sent to the DNS 
server. Therefore the situation where a browser can handle Unicode in the 
address bar but cannot handle punycode in the certificate should not exist.  

 

In order to address the concerns raised by CFCA, GDCA, and SHECA, I have spent 
the last couple of hours processing all the unexpired certificates in CT logs 
to quantify the impact of the rule proposed in this ballot and look at 
alternatives.

 

There are currently 385,042 certificates with Internationalized Domain Names 
(IDNs), including both IDNs where the ccTLD has non-ASCII characters and ones 
where some other portion of the name has non-ASCII characters.  Of these, zero 
were issued by CFCA, GDCA, or SHECA.  So there would be no known impact to 
these CAs.

 

That being said, there are 20,055 certificates which have Unicode in the common 
name issued by other CAs.  Having Unicode common names is far less prevelant 
than punycode common names; 364,987 certificates with IDNs do not have Unicode 
common names.  In testing in the browsers which I have on my desktop, I don’t 
see any difference but it is possible that local browsers may show a difference.

 

Here are two sites to test: https:// <https://xn--6oqy0rkra12v.cn> 会影基地.cn and 
https:// <https://xn--uisy4s8rz.cn/> 城惠网.cn

 

I saw Ryan’s response to you and he suggests that "consistent and unambiguous 
representation” is needed in the common name.  Based on testing the 20,055 
certificates, it looks like we can have this by allowing a CA to choose to 
either use all LDH labels in a common name or use only NR-LDH labels and 
U-labels, where the U-labels are created by converting the A-labels to Unicode. 
 This would give the option of two consistent and unambiguous representations — 
one in punycode and one in Unicode.

 

Adding this option for CAs would all full representation of languages in the 
common name.

 

Thanks,

Peter

 

On Jul 26, 2017, at 9:41 AM, Kirk Hall via Public <[email protected]> wrote:

 

Peter, Ben, and Ryan – do you have a response to the punycode issue raised by 
CFCA, GDCA, and SHECA?

 

From: Public [ <mailto:[email protected]> 
mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of ?? via Public
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2017 1:44 AM
To: 'CA/Browser Forum Public Discussion List' < <mailto:[email protected]> 
[email protected]>
Cc: '赵改侠' < <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]>
Subject: [EXTERNAL][cabfpub] Reply: Ballot 202 - Underscore and Wildcard 
Characters

 

CFCA votes No

 

we  suggest that the punycode shouldn't be applied on SSL certs in this 
approach.

 

For non-English countries, the domain name may be displayed wrong in some 
browers in punycode and the governance policy requires that  local CA should 
obey the laws to display local language when ccTLD is used in local language. 

IF punycode is used and the browsers(Which I mean any browsers including local 
browsers) couldn't translate it into local language , the website visitors may 
be confused.

 

Zhang Yi

Business Research Competent

China Financial Certification Authority

Business Department

 

Address: Bldg. 2, #20, 14th Kechuang street, YiZhuang Economic-Technological 
Development Zone,Daxing District,Beijing , P. R. China

Postcode: 100176

TEL: +86 010-58903555

Mobile: +86 18510280028

Email:  <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]

 

发件人:  <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] [ 
<mailto:[email protected]> mailto:[email protected]] 代表 
Erwann Abalea via Public
发送时间: 2017年7月26日 2:39
收件人: CA/Browser Forum Public Discussion List; Ben Wilson
主题: Re: [cabfpub] Ballot 202 - Underscore and Wildcard Characters

 

Bonsoir,

 

DocuSign France votes No.

 

While there are good clarifications around domain names, FQDNs, wildcards, and 
reserved labels, there are a few drawbacks:

 

1. Underscores in SAN:dNSName entries. It’s not the current BR that disallows 
underscores in dNSNames, it’s X.509 and RFC5280 (and current DNS 
specifications), and there is no justification about allowing underscores other 
than « it’s done by some admins » or « Microsoft allows it ». While domain 
names can contain anything (even characters such as '[({*$!?" ), dNSName shall 
contain a host name, and host names shall only be composed of LDH labels. I’d 
prefer the standards to be changed instead of explicitly allowing deviations 
from the standard.

 

2. « Reserved IP address ». The new definition now allows a CA to deliver a 
certificate for an obviously invalid IP (I doubt anyone could claim « owning » 
192.0.0.9 or 192.0.0.10, and I haven’t fully checked the others).

 

3. « Wildcard Domain Name ». The new definition is not robust enough. An FQDN 
is a sequence of Domain Labels —which can contain any character—, so « *. 
<http://domain.com/> domain.com » is a valid FQDN, so « *.*. 
<http://domain.com/> domain.com » is a valid Wildcard Domain Name according to 
this definition.

 

 

Cordialement,

Erwann Abalea

 

Le 12 juil. 2017 à 19:24, Ben Wilson via Public < <mailto:[email protected]> 
[email protected]> a écrit :

 

Ballot 202 - Underscore and Wildcard Characters

The current Baseline Requirements do not expressly allow underscore characters 
in Subject Alternative Names. This ballot seeks to clarify that one or more 
underscore characters (“_”) are allowed in FQDNs. In many places it also 
replaces the term "FQDN" with "Domain Name" because "Domain Name" now means 
either "FQDN" or "Wildcard Domain Name". The ballot clarifies validation of 
wildcard domain names. It also cleans up some of the language in Sections 
3.2.2.4 and 7.1.4.2.1 of the Baseline Requirements. 

The following motion has been proposed by Ben Wilson of DigiCert and endorsed 
by Peter Bowen of Amazon and Ryan Sleevi of Google to introduce new Final 
Maintenance Guidelines for the "Baseline Requirements Certificate Policy for 
the Issuance and Management of Publicly-Trusted Certificates" (Baseline 
Requirements). 

--Motion Begins-- 

A. In Sections 1.3.2, 1.6 (Base Domain Name), 2.2, 3.2.2.4, 3.2.2.4.5, 
3.2.2.4.6, 3.2.2.4.10, 3.2.2.4.11, 4.2.1, 4.9.1.1.6, and 4.9.11 of the Baseline 
Requirements, REPLACE the words "Fully Qualified Domain Name" and "FQDN" with 
"Domain Name". 

B. In Section 1.6.1 of the Baseline Requirements, REPLACE the definition for 
"Authorization Domain Name" with the following: The Domain Name used to obtain 
authorization for certificate issuance for a given Domain Name. The CA may use 
the FQDN returned from a DNS CNAME lookup as the Domain Name for the purposes 
of domain validation. If the Domain Name is a Wildcard Domain Name, then the CA 
MUST remove “*.” from the left most portion of requested Domain Name. The CA 
may prune zero or more labels from left to right until encountering a Base 
Domain Name and may use any one of the intermediate values for the purpose of 
domain validation. 

C. In Section 1.6.1 of the Baseline Requirements, INSERT the following 
definition: "Domain Label: An individual component of a Domain Name." 

D. In Section 1.6.1 of the Baseline Requirements, REPLACE the definition for 
"Domain Name" with the following: A set of one or more Domain Labels, each 
separated by a single full stop character ("."). 

E. In Section 1.6.1 of the Baseline Requirements, REPLACE the definition for 
"Fully-Qualified Domain Name" with the following: A Domain Name that includes 
the Domain Labels of all superior nodes in the Internet Domain Name System. 

F. In Section 1.6.1 of the Baseline Requirements, REPLACE the definition for 
"Reserved IP Address" with the following: An IPv4 or IPv6 address that the IANA 
has "False" for Globally Reachable in either of the IANA Special-Purpose IP 
Address Registries: 

 
<https://www.iana.org/assignments/iana-ipv4-special-registry/iana-ipv4-special-registry.xhtml>
 
https://www.iana.org/assignments/iana-ipv4-special-registry/iana-ipv4-special-registry.xhtml
 or 

 
<https://www.iana.org/assignments/iana-ipv6-special-registry/iana-ipv6-special-registry.xhtml>
 
https://www.iana.org/assignments/iana-ipv6-special-registry/iana-ipv6-special-registry.xhtml

G. In Section 1.6.1 of the Baseline Requirements, REPLACE the definition for 
"Wildcard Certificate" with the following: A Certificate containing a Wildcard 
Domain Name in any of the Subject Alternative Names in the Certificate. 

H. In Section 1.6.1 of the Baseline Requirements, INSERT the following 
definition: "Wildcard Domain Name: A Domain Name consisting of a single 
asterisk character ("*") followed by a single full stop character (".") 
followed by a Fully-Qualified Domain Name." 

I. In Section 2.2 of the Baseline Requirements, INSERT the word "requested" in 
the fourth sentence between the words "processing CAA records for" and "Domain 
Names" so that it reads, "processing CAA records for requested Domain Names". 

J. REPLACE the second paragraph of Section 3.2.2.4 of the Baseline Requirements 
so that it reads, "The CA SHALL confirm that, as of the date the Certificate 
issues, the CA has validated each Domain Name listed in the Certificate using 
at least one of the methods listed below, or is within the Domain Namespace of 
a Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) that has been validated using at least one 
of the methods listed below (not including the method defined in section 
3.2.2.4.8)." 

K. REPLACE Section 3.2.2.6 of the Baseline Requirements in its entirety with: 

3.2.2.6. Additional Validation for Wildcard Certificates 

Before issuing a Wildcard Certificate, the CA MUST establish and follow a 
documented procedure[^pubsuffix] that determines if the FQDN portion of any 
Wildcard Domain Name in the certificate is “registry-controlled” or is a 
“public suffix” (e.g. “*.com”, “*. <http://co.uk/> co.uk”, see RFC 6454 Section 
8.2 for further explanation). 

If the FQDN portion of any Wildcard Domain Name in the certificate is 
"registry-controlled" or is a "public suffix", CAs MUST refuse issuance unless 
the applicant proves its rightful control of the entire Domain Namespace. (e.g. 
CAs MUST NOT issue "*. <http://co.uk/> co.uk" or "*.local", but MAY issue "*. 
<http://example.com/> example.com" to Example Co.). 

[^pubsuffix] Determination of what is “registry-controlled” versus the 
registerable portion of a Country Code Top-Level Domain Namespace is not 
standardized at the time of writing and is not a property of the DNS itself. 
Current best practice is to consult a “public suffix list” such as  
<http://publicsuffix.org/> http://publicsuffix.org/ (PSL), and to retrieve a 
fresh copy regularly. If using the PSL, a CA SHOULD consult the "ICANN DOMAINS" 
section only, not the "PRIVATE DOMAINS" section. The PSL is updated regularly 
to contain new gTLDs delegated by ICANN, which are listed in the "ICANN 
DOMAINS" section. A CA is not prohibited from issuing a Wildcard Certificate to 
the Registrant of an entire gTLD, provided that control of the entire namespace 
is demonstrated in an appropriate way. 

L. REPLACE Section 7.1.4.2.1 of the Baseline Requirements in its entirety with: 

7.1.4.2.1 Subject Alternative Name Extension 

Certificate Field: extensions:subjectAltName 

Required/Optional: Required 

Contents: This extension MUST contain at least one entry. Each entry MUST be 
one of the following types: 

1. dNSName: the entry MUST contain either a Fully-Qualified Domain Name or 
Wildcard Domain Name that the CA has validated in accordance with section 
3.2.2.4. FQDNs and the FQDN portion of Wildcard DNs must comply with RFC 5280 
section 4.2.1.6 with the following exception: underscore characters ("_") are 
allowed in Domain Labels such that replacing all underscore characters with 
hyphen characters ("-") would result in a valid Domain Label. CAs MUST NOT 
include Domain Labels which have hyphens as the third and fourth characters 
unless the first character is "x" or "X", the second character is "n" or "N", 
and the fifth and later characters are a valid Punycode string. CAs MUST 
additionally validate that Wildcard DNs are consistent with section 3.2.2.6. 
The entry MUST NOT contain an Internal Name. 

2. iPAddress: the entry MUST contain an IP address that the CA has validated in 
accordance with Section 3.2.2.5. The entry MUST NOT contain a Reserved IP 
Address. 

M. REPLACE subsection a. of Section 7.1.4.2.2 of the Baseline Requirements 
with: 

a. Certificate Field: subject:commonName (OID 2.5.4.3) 

Required/Optional: Deprecated (Discouraged, but not prohibited) 

Contents: If present, this field MUST contain a single IP address or Domain 
Name that is one of the values contained in the Certificate’s subjectAltName 
extension (see Section 7.1.4.2.1). When including a Domain Name in a common 
name, CAs MUST only use LDH labels as defined in RFC 5890 and MUST NOT use 
U-labels. When including an IPv6 address in a common name, CAs MUST use a 
format conforming to Section 4 or Section 5 of RFC 5952. When including an IPv4 
address in a common name, CAs MUST encode the name as an IPv4Address as defined 
in RFC 3986. 

--Motion Ends-- 

The procedure for approval of this Final Maintenance Guideline ballot is as 
follows (exact start and end times may be adjusted to comply with applicable 
Bylaws and IPR Agreement): 

BALLOT 202 Status: Final Maintenance Guideline Start time (22:00 UTC) End time 
(22:00 UTC) 

Discussion (7 to 14 days) July 12, 2017 to July 19, 2017 

Vote for approval (7 days) July 19, 2017 to July 26, 2017 

If a vote of the Forum approves this ballot, the Chair will initiate a 30-day 
IPR Review Period by sending out an IPR Review Notice. 

After 30 days of announcing the IPR Review period by the Chair: 

(a) If Exclusion Notice(s) are filed, this ballot approval is rescinded and a 
PAG will be created; or (b) If no Exclusion Notices are filed, this ballot 
becomes effective at end of the IPR Review Period. 

>From Bylaw 2.3: If the Draft Guideline Ballot is proposing a Final Maintenance 
>Guideline, such ballot will include a redline or comparison showing the set of 
>changes from the Final Guideline section(s) intended to become a Final 
>Maintenance Guideline, and need not include a copy of the full set of 
>guidelines. Such redline or comparison shall be made against the Final 
>Guideline section(s) as they exist at the time a ballot is proposed, and need 
>not take into consideration other ballots that may be proposed subsequently, 
>except as provided in Bylaw Section 2.3(j). 

Votes must be cast by posting an on-list reply to this thread on the Public 
list. A vote in favor of the motion must indicate a clear 'yes' in the 
response. A vote against must indicate a clear 'no' in the response. A vote to 
abstain must indicate a clear 'abstain' in the response. Unclear responses will 
not be counted. The latest vote received from any representative of a voting 
member before the close of the voting period will be counted. Voting members 
are listed here:  <https://cabforum.org/members/> https://cabforum.org/members/

In order for the motion to be adopted, two thirds or more of the votes cast by 
members in the CA category and greater than 50% of the votes cast by members in 
the browser category must be in favor. Quorum is half of the number of 
currently active Members, which is the average number of Member organizations 
that have participated in the previous three Forum-wide meetings (both 
teleconferences and face-to-face meetings). Under Bylaw 2.2(g), at least the 
required quorum number must participate in the ballot for the ballot to be 
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