On Tue, Jun 17, 2025, 9:14 AM Salz, Rich <rsalz=40akamai....@dmarc.ietf.org>
wrote:

> If Google's advocated changes were poorly conceived, it should be
> possible to make a case to the CA/B forum to reverse the erroneous
> policy.
>
> That won’t matter because Google is doing it; you have to convince Google
> to stop.
>
Root programs only govern roots that CAs choose to put in their program.

There's no reason a CA couldn't construct a separate root for this usage
although ideally it would go through we trust audits.

Anyway this is a discussion for dev-security-policy not the IETF

>
>
> My concern with the draft -- well-intended though I think it is – is that
> this runs the risk of escalation.  There’s nothing to stop Google or CA/B
> to define an OID for extendedKeyUsage that just has the old semantics and
> then the issue a timetable for it.
>
>
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