Re: amsl.com certificate?

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At Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:04:05 +0100,
Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> 
> I just registered for IETF-71 and tried to pay. I wasn't bothered too  
> much when I got an SSL warning for the former, but I hesitate to  
> proceed with the latter, which is also under the amsl.com domain.
> 
> My browser (the latest version of Safari on the Mac) complains that  
> the issuer of the certificate is untrusted. That would be Starfield  
> Secure Certification Authority.
> 
> Is this a CA in good standing that we should trust?

So, what puzzles me here is:
Why is this going to amsl.com at all? It seems extremely
desirable to have a set of names and credentials that point
only to *ietf.org, both to keep interfaces consistent and
to avoid issues with referential integrity in future
transitions.

-Ekr
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