On 8 Jul 2021, at 7:12, Salz, Rich wrote:

> A discussion started on the GitHub repo 
> https://github.com/richsalz/draft-ietf-uta-rfc6125bis about what is allowed 
> for the wildcard character, such as in DNS entries in subjectAltName.  I am 
> about to publish a new draft which takes the old adopted “diff” version and 
> does a full version of 6125. The current draft says that a wildcard may be 
> the first, or only, character in the left-most DNS name.
>
> Brian Smith and Ryan Sleevi started a discussion on the PR 
> https://github.com/richsalz/draft-ietf-uta-rfc6125bis/pull/1#discussion_r663206174
>  recommending that the doc should be the *only* character.  For example, 
> *.apps.example.com is okay, but *apps.example.com is not.

I would expect subjectAltName to have the same constraints as DNS entries have, 
which only allow wildcards for full labels, so I support only allowing 
*.apps.example.com.

-Jim

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