[Servercert-wg] "Common date formats" in EVG 9.2.5

[Ryan Sleevi]

On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 2:48 PM Tim Hollebeek via Servercert-wg <
servercert-wg at cabforum.org> wrote:

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> The following text is current in the EV Guidelines, section 9.2.5:
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> “If the Jurisdiction of Incorporation or Registration does not provide a
> Registration Number, then the date of Incorporation or Registration SHALL
> be entered into this field in any one of the common date formats.”
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> Is there any reason why we shouldn’t standardize on an ISO 8601 date
> format like YYYY-MM-DD?
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> Obviously, this would require time to implement for CAs that might be
> using alternative formats, but I’m not sure what the value is of allowing
> flexibility in this particular field.
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Thanks for raising that. Totally agreed, that would be useful to align on.
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