[cabfpub] Immense Organization Legal Names in EV certificates

[Kirk Hall]

I agree, Rick, and a good double check for the abbreviation is, how does the company itself abbreviate on its website, its domain name, it's WhoIs registration, etc.  If " Symantec Corporation, a Certificate Authority that is a Member of the CA/Browser Forum and Operates in the US, UK, EMEA, and Asia Pacific Regions" calls itself "Symantec US/UK/PR" and is known that way, that's probably a pretty good abbreviation to copy.

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Subject: [cabfpub] Immense Organization Legal Names in EV certificates

Based on the last paragraph at EVG 9.2.1, I have a question about non-material words in legal names that are impossible to fully capture in any abbreviated form. We encounter legal names in excess of 200 characters.
In one general case, a portion of the name clearly marks the publicly known part of the name and a portion of the name refers to a geographic association to which the organization belongs but this is recorded in the organization's full legal name. 

A literal example (made up): Symantec Corporation, a Certificate Authority that is a Member of the CA/Browser Forum and Operates in the US, UK, EMEA, and Asia Pacific Regions. I would propose that Symantec Corporation is material and the rest is not because it does not identify a more specific legal entity than Symantec Corporation. Therefore, non-material content removed, the Organization attribute could contain Symantec Corporation.

Another: ABC Company, a licensed public accountancy practicing in the states of New York, California, Delaware, and Nevada. That would be ABC Company.

The specific organizations subject to this situation are intentionally abstracted by examples. Does anyone disagree with what's material and non-material in these examples?

-Rick