[cabfpub] Requirements language cleanup

[Ryan Sleevi]

On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 3:05 PM Dean Coclin via Public <public at cabforum.org>
wrote:

> As mentioned on today’s call, our team went through the CA/B Forum
> Baseline Requirements, EV Guidelines and Code Signing Guidelines to review
> for names which are being deprecated by the industry. The number found were
> very minor:
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> In the EV Guidelines, the following text was found: “Denied Lists and
> Other Legal Black Lists” in Pg. iii Table of Contents 11.12.2 Black Lists;
> Pg. 30 11.12.2. Suggest changing to “Block Lists”.
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> In the EV Code Signing Guidelines, the following text was found: “In
> addition to checking revocation status, where practical, platforms should
> consult blacklists of suspect software”. Suggest changing to “blocklist”.
> This can be taken up by the code signing WG.
>

I can add both of these to the cleanups & clarifications ballot, now that I
have endorsers, assuming they're OK with a last minute addition.


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> In the TLS Baseline Requirements, there is reference to standard email
> addresses (page 19) used to contact parties for domain validation (i.e.
> webmaster, hostmaster, postmaster). However, I’m assuming these cannot be
> changed.
>

Yes, these are from RFC 2142


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> I know there are some cleanup ballots either planned or underway and
> perhaps these can be included there.
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> Dean Coclin
>
> DigiCert
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