letsencrypt / letsencrypt/cp-cps

Consider simplifying subscriber warranties regarding revocation

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Description

We currently say:

Each Subscriber acknowledges and accepts that ISRG is entitled to revoke Subscriber's ISRG certificates immediately if the Subscriber violates the terms of the Subscriber Agreement or if ISRG discovers that any of Subscriber's ISRG certificates are being used to enable criminal activities such as phishing attacks, fraud, or the distribution of malware.

However, the actual subscriber agreement is much broader, listing a wide variety of situations in which we may revoke their certificate. Specifically listing phishing, fraud, and malware here lends undue weight to those particular reasons, while leaving many other reasons unmentioned.

We should consider simplifying this to not list specific reasons, and to instead either reference the subscriber agreement, or use the same "other reasonable and lawful grounds" language as it uses.

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Research direction

Locate the quoted subscriber-warranty wording in the CP/CPS documents and compare it with the broader subscriber agreement language. Done means the passage no longer gives special emphasis to phishing, fraud, and malware and instead uses a subscriber-agreement reference or the stated general-grounds wording.

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Documentation
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1-3 hours
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