Guidance on the Deprecation of Internal Server Names and Reserved IP Addresses

This document explains the changes to Certification Authority support for internal server names and reserved IP dddresses and the reasons behind the new rules that were introduced in the Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and Management of Publicly Trusted Certificates, Version 1.0 that took effect effect on July 1, 2012:
Guidance on the Deprecation of Internal Server Names and Reserved IP Addresses