On 20/11/15 14:18, Kathleen Moriarty wrote:
>>> 
>>> - section 3, 2nd list, bullet 4 - afaik, CN is what is mostly 
>>> actually used.  Shouldn't we recognise that reality with more
>>> than a MAY? It's been more than a decade since PKI folks started
>>> to want to not use CN and that's just not worked. (Or am I wrong
>>> and CAs/MUAs are finally seeing CN not used?)
> Hmm, they were used in all of the CAs I set up and certificates I
> have needed to use, adding the host name there.  Sometimes there were
> CNAMEs added in an extension.  What are you seeing used instead of
> CN/DN?

Yeah, CN seems to still be ubiquitous, though Alexey reminded me
(off list) that the dNSName SAN is also widely used. So all in all
section 4 is probably ok, if we consider the SRV stuff as something
we'd like to see deployed, but have yet to see deployed.

S.

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