Comments: 1. As noted, please open trac ticket to remove custom args from the command line from pkispawn, and add -i instance mandatory parameter to pkidestroy. 2. In pkihelper, you add logic that separates out the case of the subordinate CA because subordinate is not defined for any subsystem other than a CA. You could leave it in the same conditional, and simplify the conditional to be: if (clone) or (!ca) or (subordinate): 3. Please shorten the name of util.namespace.pki_instance_name_collision_detection_avoidance() You can make those changes and check in without re-review. As long as you test of course to confirm you have not broken anything. Ade