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"Roeland Meyer (E-mail)" wrote: > > L. Sassaman: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 12:43 PM > > > There are many issues too detailed to go into here that should > be > > formally addressed in regards to keyservers. If the keyserver > > infrastructure does ramp up, I think that an RFC will be in > > order. Anyone > > with the IETF here? Who would I talk to about forming such a > WG? Is a > > keyserver standard within the scope of the IETF? > > I get a real good chuckle out of this thread.<g> > 1) Randy hisself is a promenent member of the IETF. > 2) Having co-chaired a WG, I suspect that randy may even know how > it's done. > 3) I'd bet a small amount of change that Randy has already > started the wheels in motion, even before he sent the first > message. > 4) I suspect that this thread exists to measure the level of > interest among the major players. > > Now for something on-topic; > Yes, Internet PKI, in it's present state, sucks. Yes, there is a > need, but the architecture definitely needs a look-see. > Personally, I think it grossly inadequate and there ain't no way > that it can be made as reliable as DNS, in it's present form. > It's basically a poor-man's TLS with about half the fore-thought. > Personally, I've been working with X.509 certs as an improvement > over basic PGP, but again, the PKI sucks there as well. > > But, as a previous poster already brought to surface, the users > must have an interest in this service or NONE of the ISPs will be > interested in deployment. The reason that existing PKI sucks is > mainly a lack of serious user interest. There are NO > production-level PKI servers out there today. None of them will > commit to an SLA and there are too few customers that will pay > the required bucks to support a decent SLA, for a PKI > infrastructure. Build it and they will NOT come, yet. Yes, but they're likely to come... soon... ([likely/perhaps] not [immediately] with the Net wide request though, but in quite various quite relevant contexts). > > > As usual, this is only an opinion > Mine :) mh > > --- > R O E L A N D M . J . M E Y E R > CEO, Morgan Hill Software Company, Inc. > An eCommerce and eBusiness practice > providing products and services for the Internet. > Tel: (925)373-3954 > Fax: (925)373-9781 -- Michael Hallgren, http://m.hallgren.free.fr
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