[x500standard] Wildcard DNS name

From: "Erik Andersen" <era@xxxxxxx>
To: "Directory list" <x500standard@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "SG17-Q11" <T13sg17q11@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 12:00:28 +0200

Hi,

 

I have proposed the following text to end of the text of the proposed DNS
name attribute type.

 

A DNS name to be used as a name in a public-key certificate or in an
attribute certificate shall be a fully-qualified domain name (FQDN), i.e.,
it shall identify a particular entity. A FQDN may have an asterisk ('*') as
an additional leftmost label, which is a substitute (wildcard) for all
labels of the next levels of subdomains of the domain identified by the FQDN
without the asterisk. 

 

Please comment on whether such paragraph is useful, and if so, you might
suggest a more elegant formulation.

 

Regards,

 

Erik

[x500standard] Wildcard DNS name

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