[cabfpub] Question about CN and SAN encoding

[Ryan Sleevi]

On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 11:06 AM, Tim Hollebeek <tim.hollebeek at digicert.com>
wrote:

> With regards to the first two sentences, Firefox had some bugs in this
> area pretty recently, so if you aren’t on the latest version, you might
> experience issues.  They were relatively minor, though.
>

Could you provide a citation for this? I actually carefully watch all of
those changes, and am not aware of any recent bugs that would overlap with
the ballot or question. It's possible that you're referring to the logic
for when A-Label to U-Labels are displayed, but that, if anything, is a
very clear argument in favor of Ballot 202, and against U-Labels within CNs.


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> We still support Ballot 202 and think it was shame it failed.  If someone
> wants to resubmit it so the issue can be discussed and amended or passed
> unchanged, we support that.  It occasionally comes up here in internal
> discussions about things from the past we’d like to fix.
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> -Tim
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> There are no known compatibility issues in having the CN match the A-Label
> form (that is, xn--).
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> There are no known display issues in having the CN match the A-Label form
> (that is, xn--).
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> Unfortunately, some CAs voted against providing this guidance within the
> BRs, and thus the ballot ( https://cabforum.org/2017/
> 07/26/ballot-202-underscore-wildcard-characters/ ) failed. No further
> details have been provided as to the basis of the objecting CAs, so the
> Forum is left with little input as how to make this acceptable to them.
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> The ballot could otherwise be resubmitted unchanged.
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