Re: [xri] Subject Auth Name?

[Brian Eaton <beaton@google.com>]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 4:45 PM, RL 'Bob' Morgan
<rlmorgan@washington.edu> wrote:
>
>> The field I was referring to is "Subject Alternative Name", aka
>> subjectAltName.  See section 4.2.1.6 of RFC 5280,
>> http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5280.txt .
>
> I suppose I should add that my reason for bringing it up was to suggest that
> *if* new profiles specifying the use of X.509 certs are to be written they
> should strongly consider using subjectAltName for subject naming rather than
> trying to wedge yet more stuff into Subject.

Would referencing RFC 2818 (certificate validation for https) address
this concern?

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2818#section-3.1