On 02/09/16 15:42, Daniel Margolis wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 4:49 PM Stephen Farrell <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
>>
>> - 3.3: I forget why "policy.mta-sts" is what's prepended to the
>> policy domain. Personally, I dislike the two-level thing there
>> and don't see that it's useful. If you do keep it, then it'd be
>> good to justify it. But that's mostly a matter of taste I
>> think. OTOH, it might be a small barrier to deployments in some
>> places, not sure.
>>
>>
> The rationale here was that it's far more likely that someone gives
> untrusted users the ability to host untrusted content on a hostname of
> their choosing than on a sub-zone. E.g. tumblr.com, dyndns.org, etc, have
> the concern of someone registering "mta-sts.tumblr.com", but you can't (on
> those platforms) register "policy.mta-sts.tumblr.com", to my knowledge.
> 
> This does make things a tad uglier, though, and I think it may even make it
> harder for some people to publish a policy with an existing wildcard
> certificate (e.g. *.example.com would not match).
> 
> So I think it's worth getting feedback from the group on that tradeoff. Any
> opinions here?

I'd argue to ditch the two-level thing and go to one,
e.g. "mta-sts.example.com" or whatever string you like
for that hostname.

S

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