- From: Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie>
- Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 20:56:00 +0100
- To: W3 Work Group <public-wsc-wg@w3.org>
Hi all, I've gotten roped in to help run a BoF at the next IETF (end July) which is on the topic of trust anchor managment. Basically, I guess some enterprise type folks want to be able to manage the roots on their client machines, but maybe there'll be more to it as we go on (or maybe not). There's a reasonable 1st cut at a problem statement at [1] and a mailing list for chatting [2]. I think that this should be of interest to some here, in which case, I'd encourage you to get involved, or at least say what you think on that list. (Paul Hoffman already made the point there that trust anchor management might reduce the number of bad cert errors sufficiently that each could be treated seriously instead of being yet another instance of training the user to click on "ok" regardless;-) So far, it seems to me that it'd be an improvement here to have browser vendors and financials say what they think, if they're interested enough. If they're not, then that of course may tell its own story. Cheers, S. [1] http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-wallace-ta-mgmt-problem-statement-00.txt [2] http://www.vpnc.org/ietf-trust-anchor/
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