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ameliaquining parent
"If it's not a public service, why should it have a certificate from a public CA?"

Probably because making sure that clients trust the right set of non-public CAs is currently too much of a pain in the ass. Possibly an underrated investment in the security of the internet would be inventing better solutions to make this process easier, the way Certbot made certificate renewal easier (though it'd be a harder problem as the environment is more heterogeneous). This might reduce the extent of conservative stakeholders crankily demanding that the public CA infrastructure accommodate their non-public-facing embedded systems that can't keep up with the constantly evolving security requirements that are part and parcel of existing on the public internet.


Avamander
> Probably because making sure that clients trust the right set of non-public CAs is currently too much of a pain in the ass. Possibly an underrated investment in the security of the internet would be inventing better solutions to make this process easier.

I don't see a reason why that should be a problem to solve for public CAs and rest of the internet? Complaining about multi-perspective validation or lifetime is silly if the hindrance is someone's own business needs and requirements.

ameliaquining OP
Because right now, the CA/B Forum believes that they cannot just completely blow off the concerns of orgs that are having problems adapting to the new requirements because they have legacy tech investments that use the Web PKI for purposes it's not a good fit for. This causes them to move more slowly than the less conservative stakeholders would like. If those concerns were lessened, then the CA/B Forum would feel freer to move faster.

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