Yeah, thanks for digging that up.  I think it was a different reference I was
thinking of, but same conclusion.  Making things complicated makes things
fail.

-Tim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Seth David Schoen <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 8, 2018 4:46 PM
> To: Ryan Sleevi <[email protected]>; CA/Browser Forum Public Discussion
> List <[email protected]>
> Cc: Tim Hollebeek <[email protected]>; servercert-
> [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [cabfpub] [Servercert-wg] Ballot SC4 - email and CAA CONTACT
> 
> Ryan Sleevi via Public writes:
> 
> > On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 6:38 PM Tim Hollebeek
> > <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > If certificates need to be readily available to everyone, we can’t
> > > force arcana onto less sophisticated users.  Remember, there’s
> > > plenty of evidence showing that people adding CAA records often misspell
> letsencrypt.
> > >
> >
> > Link?
> 
> I have no position on the underlying issue, but this is probably a reference 
> to
> this research paper:
> 
> https://www.net.in.tum.de/fileadmin/bibtex/publications/papers/caa_ccr.pdf
> 
> (I also do a fair amount of support for Let's Encrypt users and can confirm 
> that
> people on the Internet often misspell and/or misunderstand
> things.)
> 
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