Re: [art] Against BCP 190

[Melinda Shore <[e-mail]>]

On 7/23/19 11:28 AM, Leif Johansson wrote:
> In other words: what parts of the web will crash and burn as the result
> of CT having an API that specifies a uri structure outside .well-known?

The discussions in trans have focused on the question of the
impact of BCP 190 on CT and there's been a lack of clarity on
the question of the impact of the CT namespace on the rest of
the world.  That is to say, CT log servers run in very narrow,
specialized spaces and it's not really clear that there is
potential, in practice, for the sorts of conflicts BCP 190 is
intended to prevent.  So, we've got a situation in which there
are considerable practical impacts of BCP 190 on the CT protocol
in both design and implementation, and any apparent impacts of
the CT protocol using a non-compliant namespace on the rest of
the world appear to be at best theoretical.

Melinda


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