[cabfpub] [EXTERNAL]Re: Ballot 190 - Recording BR Version Number

[Ben Wilson]

Are we talking about what the CA records in its database for the  validation
method used, or are we talking about annotating the BRs with a record of
when a change was made?

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Subject: Re: [cabfpub] [EXTERNAL]Re: Ballot 190 - Recording BR Version
Number

On 21/07/17 16:02, Kirk Hall via Public wrote:
>> The two responses (Gerv's and mine) are not in conflict, and there is no
harm in including the extra information in the BRs.  I'm a big believer in
helping people avoid mistakes when it's easy to do.

I don't believe that it's good for there to be two possible ways of
recording the relevant information. Either it should be mandated to record
the BR version number and method section number, or there should be some
other versioning mechanism - but not both.

I don't see the objection to BR version number and section number. If a new
version of the BRs is published which makes no changes to domain validation
methods (a common occurrence), then clearly:

BR 1.7.1/Section 3.2.2.4.5
is totally equivalent to
BR 1.7.2/Section 3.2.2.4.5

(because there are no changes to section 3.2.2.4.5) and so it doesn't matter
which of the two identifiers the CA records. The CA can continue to record
compliance with BR 1.7.1 as long as there are no material changes in any
future versions of the BRs which affect method 3.2.2.4.5.

Gerv
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