[cabfpub] Merging BRs and EVGLs

[Rob Stradling]

+1 to all of that.  :-)

I hope we'll see the Mozilla CA Certificate Policy in RFC3647/Markdown
at some point in the near future too.  :-)

On 30/09/15 10:19, Gervase Markham wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> The ever-helpful Peter Bowen has informed me he has already written the
> document-merging script I postulated. It's here:
> 
> https://github.com/pzb/PublicCP/blob/master/utils/merge.rb
> 
> It requires a version of the BRs and a version of the EVGLs which are
> both in Markdown format and in RFC 3647 order. The EVGLs have not yet
> been converted to RFC 3647, and so Peter has done his own conversion here:
> 
> https://github.com/pzb/PublicCP/blob/master/docs/ExtendedValidation.md
> 
> I attach a sample PDF of a merged BRs and EVGLs document made using this
> method. This is only a technology demo, of course, but it shows what
> sort of thing can be done. For an example section containing both BR and
> EV content, see section 1.3.2.
> 
> So I think if people are keen for it to be possible for people to see a
> combined view of these two documents, the best thing to do is to work on
> an official RFC 3647 conversion of the EVGLs, and for us to make
> Markdown the official source format of all of our documents. I am
> thoroughly in favour of both of those changes. This course of action
> would allow those who wanted separate documents to have them, and those
> who wanted merged documents to have them too. Everyone wins.
> 
> It would also be possible for CAs to put all of their other internal
> documentation into RFC3647 format and Markdown, and use that to
> construct their own internal documents which give the totality of their
> requirements. That might be a useful capability too.
> 
> Gerv
> 
> 
> 
> The commands I used to generate the document were:
> 
> $ utils/merge.rb docs/Outline.md docs/BaselineRequirements.md
> docs/ExtendedValidation.md defs.md > BREV-merged.md
> 
> $ utils/kram.rb BREV-merged.md > BREV-merged.html
> 
> $ weasyprint BREV-merged.html BREV-merged.pdf
> 
> You will need to have various libraries and apps like kramdown and
> weasyprint installed, but those should be available in the package
> manager of your Linux distribution. You are using Linux, right? ;-)

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Rob Stradling
Senior Research & Development Scientist
COMODO - Creating Trust Online