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[spec] Oustanding issues

Stephane Bortzmeyer stephane at sources.org

Wed Jan 6 08:25:59 GMT 2021

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On Tue, Jan 05, 2021 at 03:17:00PM -0500, Gary Johnson <lambdatronic at disroot.org> wrote a message of 89 lines which said:

1. What are the valid/invalid/recommended values for CN, SAN, and

expiration dates in certificates in the context of TOFU?

Also, regarding TOFU (probably the worst part of the currentspecification), there are many other clarifications requested:

should the client consider the whole certificate or just the publickey? The spec says the whole certificate but I don't see the point ifthe rest of the certificate is not used.* interactions between TOFU and valid certificates. For instance,should a client disable TOFU when the certificate is valid?* rewrite the sentence "the previous certificate's expiry date has notpassed" because you don't renew a certificate when it is expired, buta few days/weeks before.

2. Client use of URL fragments (jump to heading, full text search, etc.)

There are actually two separate issues with fragments:

Behavior during redirection* Semantics for text/gemini