Name Constraints, was Re: [caops-wg] Re: ca signing policy file

[David Chadwick]

Mike

Mike Helm wrote:
> David Chadwick writes:
> 
>>Now if you are telling me that most commercial CAs do not support name 
>>constraints, that would be a powerful argument to support reverting name 
>>constraints back to their original semantics.
> 
> 
> As interesting as the name constraints tangent is, did it actually
> address your question?
> 
> I assumed when you said "commercial CA" you meant something like
> Verisign or Global sign &c.
> 
> But you could have meant a PKI environment like Entrust or Windows....

Actually I was interested in both

David
> 

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