Re: [Acme] Proposed ACME Charter Language

[Russ Housley <[e-mail]>]

Stephen:

>> I'm willing to assume that an
>> attempt to replace things that people are using will meet with
>> vigorous discussion.
> 
> Right. People are using CMC, but not afaik when dealing with any
> public CAs for getting certificates for public Internet services.
> I think CMP has some similar but much smaller set of real uses. (*)
> And I'm not sure if EST has gotten traction. SCEP has uses but
> that's another kettle of cans of worms and fish;-)
> 
> I think it would be better to have the vigorous discussion about
> CMC vs.ACME-JSON-etc (if that's the one we need to have) before
> we form the WG. But is that in fact the meat of your concern here?
> If so, then I assume you'd be arguing for use of CMC/CRMF PDUs
> in ACME messages. If not, I'm not back to being puzzled. Can you
> clarify?

I was not concerned about CMC, CMP, or SCEP.  My concern is around EST.  The Hotspot spec points to it, and we should see if others are using it.

Russ