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=== Certificates Referencing Local Names or Private IP Addresses ===
=== Certificates Referencing Local Names or Private IP Addresses ===


This is forbidden by the Baseline Requirements. [http://www.cabforum.org/documents.html BR 9.2.1]: “As of the Effective Date of these Requirements, prior to the issuance of a Certificate with a subjectAlternativeName (SAN) extension or Subject Common Name field containing a Reserved IP Address or Internal Server Name, the CA shall notify the Applicant that the '''use of such Certificates has been deprecated by the CA / Browser Forum and that the practice will be eliminated by October 2016'''. Also as of the Effective Date, the CA shall not issue a certificate with an Expiry Date later than 1 November 2015 with a SAN or Subject Common Name field containing a Reserved IP Address or Internal Server Name. As from 1 October 2016, CAs shall revoke all unexpired Certificates.
This is forbidden by Section 7.1.4.2.1 of the [https://cabforum.org/baseline-requirements-documents/ Baseline Requirements], which says:
* As of the Effective Date of these Requirements, prior to the issuance of a Certificate with a subjectAlternativeName extension or Subject commonName field containing a Reserved IP Address or Internal Name, the CA SHALL notify the Applicant that the use of such Certificates has been deprecated by the CA / Browser Forum and that the practice will be eliminated by October 2016. Also as of the Effective Date, the CA SHALL NOT issue a certificate with an Expiry Date later than 1 November 2015 with a subjectAlternativeName extension or Subject commonName field containing a Reserved IP Address or Internal Name. Effective 1 October 2016, CAs SHALL revoke all unexpired Certificates whose subjectAlternativeName extension or Subject commonName field contains a Reserved IP Address or Internal Name.


=== Issuing SSL Certificates for .int Domains ===
=== Issuing SSL Certificates for .int Domains ===
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