<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 6:08 AM, Adriano Santoni via Public <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:public@cabforum.org" target="_blank">public@cabforum.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p><font face="Calibri">All, would like some opinions about the
following question:</font></p>
Can it be considered "okay" if the streetAddress component of an OV
(or EV) certificate Subject contains some more information than it's
strictly specified (or, more exactly, exemplified) in ITU-T X.520 ?<br>
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ITU-T X.520 (aka ISO/IEC 9594-6) reads: <br>
"The Street Address attribute type specifies a site for the local
distribution and physical delivery in a postal address,<br>
i.e., the street name, place, avenue and house number"<br>
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For instance, how would you consider a street Address that, in
addition to street name and house number, also contains a country
name: compliant? non-compliant? of dubious compliance?</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I would argue "of dubious compliance".</div><div><br></div><div>More pessimistically, it seems like it would permit avoiding validating that information - that is, 3.2.2.3 has requirements about the appearance of the subject:countryName that this would seemingly be exempt from. It would also seem to attempt to bypass the 7.1.4.2.2(h) requirement.<br></div><div><br></div><div>As noted, the subject:streetAddress needs to comply with 7.1.4.2.2(d), which means it must be validated in accordance with Section 3.2.2.1. I would argue that since 7.1.4.2.2(d) ["Number"], 7.1.4.2.2(e), (f), (g), and (h) all refer back to 3.2.2.1, it's meant to be the defined place to enter such information.</div><div><br></div><div>That's my initial take, and I'm curious whether folks would disagree. I can understand how one could read X.520 and try to argue that "streetAddress" could holistically encompass all of the street address, but I think that reading would be suspect with the clear intent of the BRs in spelling out (d)-(h) as the way of encoding the information validated from 3.2.2.1, and the times in which they're required.</div></div></div></div>