[Servercert-wg] Section 7.1.5 as required by RFC 3647 is no longer in the TLS BRs

Ben Wilson bwilson at mozilla.com
Thu Jan 4 15:50:56 UTC 2024


I think this is listed as an issue in GitHub -
https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/issues/444.

On Thu, Jan 4, 2024 at 4:54 AM Dimitris Zacharopoulos (HARICA) via
Servercert-wg <servercert-wg at cabforum.org> wrote:

> Dear Members,
>
> While taking another pass at reviewing the new certificate profiles
> introduced in ballot SC62, I realized that there is some deviation from the
> RFC 3647 structure that the BRs should maintain to help alignment of CA
> CP/CPS documents.
>
> This is the structure defined by RFC 3647 for section 7:
>
>    7.  CERTIFICATE, CRL, AND OCSP PROFILES
>    7.1  Certificate profile
>    7.1.1  Version number(s)
>    7.1.2  Certificate extensions
>    7.1.3  Algorithm object identifiers
>    7.1.4  Name forms
>    7.1.5  Name constraints
>    7.1.6  Certificate policy object identifier
>    7.1.7  Usage of Policy Constraints extension
>    7.1.8  Policy qualifiers syntax and semantics
>    7.1.9  Processing semantics for the critical Certificate Policies
>
>
> Section 7.1.5 does not exist anymore. The BRs have the name constraints
> information in 7.1.2.5.2, 7.1.2.10.8. I believe that, at a minimum, we
> should re-introduce 7.1.5 and point to other subsections of 7.1.2 for
> consistency with RFC 3647.
>
> Thoughts?
> Dimitris.
>
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