Re: IETF BoF on trust anchor managment

Can you make sure that it doesn't collide with the HTTP BOF?

Thanks,
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Thomas Roessler, W3C  <tlr@w3.org>







On 2007-06-20 20:56:00 +0100, Stephen Farrell wrote:
> From: Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie>
> To: W3 Work Group <public-wsc-wg@w3.org>
> Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 20:56:00 +0100
> Subject: IETF BoF on trust anchor managment
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> 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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