[cabfpub] ISO 3166-1 country codes

[Erwann Abalea]

Sorry for the delay, we experienced a 6h network outage for our non 
critical systems (organizational business unit), and the mail had been 
put on hold just after the start of the outage... I'm reading that all now.

Will the CABForum distinguish between EV and non-EV certificates?

EV certificates have a GUI impact, and a missing country might render 
the given certificate no more considered EV.

EV guidelines define "country" as a "sovereign state" defined by 
"Sovereign State:  A state or country that administers its own 
government, and is not dependent upon, or subject to, another power" 
which brings politics.

EV guidelines define "jurisdictionOfIncorporationCountryName" as 
mandatory for an EV certificate, and in the case you submitted, since 
the requestor acts at the country level, the rule below prevents the 
"don't use country, use locality" trick":

    "These fields MUST NOT contain information that is not relevant to
    the level of the Incorporating Agency or Registration Agency. For
    example, the Jurisdiction of Incorporation for an Incorporating
    Agency or Jurisdiction of Registration for a Registration Agency
    that operates at the country level MUST include the country
    information but MUST NOT include the state or province or locality
    information."



-- 
Erwann ABALEA

Le 01/08/2012 18:46, Rich Smith a écrit :
>
> *From:*public-bounces at cabforum.org 
> [mailto:public-bounces at cabforum.org] *On Behalf Of *Erwann Abalea
> *Sent:* Wednesday, August 01, 2012 6:08 AM
>
> <snip>
>
> If the consensus finally is "do it your way", then OK, we don't have 
> to agree on politics but only on a common nomenclature.
> </snip>
>
> */[RWS] Erwann, I just sent a much longer post on this, but IMO that 
> is exactly how the Forum should approach this.  The Forum, IMO, (A) 
> MUST allow a CA to operate in conformance to the laws and regulations 
> of the jurisdiction in which it operates, so when it comes to this 
> kind of situation, the Forum's role should be (1) advisory and (2)to 
> act as a repository so that consistency can be maintained across the 
> industry as much as possible given (A)./*
>

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