Not browser publishers and CAs; ONE particular browser publisher! The CAs were 
on the other side of this one.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-strong-arms-entire-ca-industry-into-one-year-certificate-lifespans/

About the only thing I can say in their defense is that the revocation system 
is broken.

Charles

On Tue, 29 Aug 2023 17:58:50 -0500, Grant Taylor <gtay...@tnetconsulting.net> 
wrote:

>On 8/29/23 2:49 PM, Rick Troth wrote:
>> When they say "certificates shall only last a year", there's little we
>> can do about it, whether they're right or wrong.
>
>The browser manufacturers have power in the browser ecosystem and the
>ecosystems that pander to them (*cough* CAs *couth*).

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