Re: [Acme] Proposed ACME Charter Language

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Mon, 20 April 2015 15:49 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie>, Russ Housley <housley@vigilsec.com>, IETF ACME <acme@ietf.org>
Thread-Topic: [Acme] Proposed ACME Charter Language
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Subject: Re: [Acme] Proposed ACME Charter Language
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> I think we really ought bottom out on this aspect before chartering - it'd be
> dumb of us to charter an ACME WG that has to fight all the CRMF battles over
> again, or the ASN.1 vs. whatever issues. So I hope lots of voices chime in and
> say what they think.

My employer gets thousands of certs from several commercial CA's.  Each one is a separate integration effort and none of them seem to look like any of the previous IETF RFC's.  The one exception is they all want a cert request, which of course predates the RFC's as it's PKCS.