This topic was originally raised on the 2026-04-09 servercert-wg call and discussed on the 2026-04-16 validation-sc meeting.
There was agreement it would be useful to do, but not urgent. Some points raised:
- There will need to be an effective to give time for CAs to transition from method 7 to the new method
- It might be possible to add a restriction to method 7 to disallow it for use with dns-01 (i.e., "_acme-challenge" cannot be the subdomain)
- It might also be possible to create the method dns-01 as a sub-method of method 7.
This topic was originally raised on the 2026-04-09 servercert-wg call and discussed on the 2026-04-16 validation-sc meeting.
There was agreement it would be useful to do, but not urgent. Some points raised: