Re: charter revisions

[Michael Ströder <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stephen Kent wrote:
> 
> Just as a CA may employ various means to verify a subject's claim to
> a name, a CA can employ analogous means to verify a subject's claim
> to a logotype.  In fact, this may be relatively easy to verify if the
> logo is a registered trademark (something a CA could require via its
> CPS).

Unfortunately it's not that easy. As a CA I would simply refuse to
add logo types to a cert because the CA could be in charge for
trademark abusing afterwards. There are currently too many such
cases going to court because some lawyers want to make a lot of
money out of it (e.g. setting a link on the web page to a name which
is considered to be similar to a trademarked name). Well, we have
the same issue with organization field though...but the lawyers did
not discover it yet.

Ciao, Michael.