svn commit: r386873 - head/security/ca_root_nss/files

[Kubilay Kocak]

On 21/05/2015 1:58 PM, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
> On Wed, 20 May 2015, Bryan Drewery wrote:
> 
>> On 5/20/15 9:25 PM, Kubilay Kocak wrote:
>>> On 21/05/2015 4:08 AM, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
>>>> Author: bjk (doc committer)
>>>> Date: Wed May 20 18:08:35 2015
>>>> New Revision: 386873
>>>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/386873
>>>>
>>>> Log:
>>>>    Fix spelling of "certification authority"
>>>>
>>>>    Approved by:	portmgr (bapt), bapt (ports committer)
>>>>
>>>> Modified:
>>>>    head/security/ca_root_nss/files/pkg-message.in
>>>>
>>>
>>>> -FreeBSD does not, and can not warrant that the certificate authorities
>>>> +FreeBSD does not, and can not warrant that the certification authorities
>>>>   whose certificates are included in this package have in any way been
>>>>   audited for trustworthiness or RFC 3647 compliance.

> This pkg-message is in the context of the Web PKI, and TLS.  TLS is an
> IETF standard; IETF documents are published as RFCs, the official
> repository of which is hosted by the RFC Editor.
> 
> The RFC Editor maintains a list of expansions of abbreviations:
> https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc-style-guide/abbrev.expansion.txt

Today I learned. Awesome.

> In this context, I believe it is quite unambiguous that CA expands to
> "certification authority", and a great deal of traffic on the IETF mailing
> lists supports the lack of ambiguity.

Agreed.

> Apparently there is ambiguity in the minds of others (yourselves), though;
> it probably would have been better to have this discussion prior to the
> commit.  I can revert it during the discussion, if you wish.

There was, it's just (way) less ambiguous and evidenced now :)

No revert necessary, I just wanted to declare the original intent.

The abbreviation expansion link would have been great in the commit log
(prior conversation or otherwise).

Thanks for teaching me something! :)

> -Ben
>