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RE: PGP kerserver infrastructure

  • From: Roeland Meyer (E-mail)
  • Date: Tue Jun 27 20:00:08 2000 
> L. Sassaman: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 1:52 PM

> On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Roeland Meyer (E-mail) wrote:

> > 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.

> I see it is not the software quality (Highware and Marc
> Horowitz's folks
> have also done an excellent job on their servers) but in the
> hardware and
> network resources allocated to the public keyserver network.

I think that was my point. Resources get determined by whatever
it takes to meet a reasonable SLA.