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>> [citation needed]

> My citation is the membership of the CAB.

It is a single member of the CAB that is insisting on changing the MAY to a MUST NOT for clientAuth. Why does that single member, Google-Chrome, get to dictate this?

Has Mozilla insisted on changing the meaning of §1.3 to basically remove "other relying‐party software applications"? Apple-Safari? Or any other of the "Certificate Consumers":

* https://cabforum.org/working-groups/server/#certificate-cons...

The membership of CAB collectively agree to the requirements/restrictions they places on themselves, and those requirements (a) state both browser and non-browser use cases, and (b) explicitly allow clientAuth usage as a MAY; see §7.1.2.10.6, §7.1.2.7.10:

* https://cabforum.org/working-groups/server/baseline-requirem...



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