<div dir="ltr">How does that fit with the quoted Section 4.1.2?<div><br></div><div>"The<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>certificate<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>request MUST contain a request from, or on behalf of, the Applicant for the issuance of a Certificate, and a certification by, or on behalf of, the Applicant that all of the information contained therein is correct."<br></div><div><br></div><div>1) If there is no certificate request, is there an Applicant at the time the CA begins validating information?</div><div>2) If there is no certificate request, and/or there is no Applicant, how is the information the CA validated conforming with Section 3.2, which Section 4.2.1 references?</div><div><br></div><div>Those are two reasons why I do not believe the scenario is permitted.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 6:37 PM, Geoff Keating <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:geoffk@apple.com" target="_blank">geoffk@apple.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Ryan,<br>
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I don’t think there’s anything in the BRs that says that particular validation steps must happen before other steps, so long as the appropriate time limits are honored. Your example where a CA finds an existing certificate for a prospective customer, validates everything in that certificate (for example checking domain name against organization name using whois), and then contacts the prospective customer (for example, via postal address in company registration, matched against whois) and asks if they’d like a replacement certificate and if all the details are correct, seems permitted to me.<br>
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