Merlijn van Deen wrote:
On 11 May 2014 13:55, Silke Meyer
<silke.meyer(a)wikimedia.de
<mailto:silke.meyer@wikimedia.de>> wrote:
It is not a trivial redirect: Wikimedia Deutschland will obviously not
give the wildcard SSL certificate for *.wikimedia.de
<http://wikimedia.de> to WMF (and WMF
would not want to have it). This would mean we would have to
completely delegate that subdomain to WMF and guarantee that it stays
like that forever. This is hard to guarantee and it is also misleading
to delegate a .de subdomain to the Foundation.
First of all: Why would the (sub)domain need to be delegated to the WMF?
The redirect could just be on WMDE servers.
If the redirect *has* to be on Foundation servers for some reason, it
could just use a specific tools.wikimedia.de <http://tools.wikimedia.de>
certificat -- or we could just kill SSL altogether -- the
tools.wikimedia.de <http://tools.wikimedia.de> domain is from before the
toolserver even had SSL support.
+1
I think you are viewing things more complex than they really are, Silke.