Re: [Dance] Benjamin Kaduk's Yes on charter-ietf-dance-00-01: (with COMMENT)

[Benjamin Kaduk <[e-mail]>]

On Wed, Sep 08, 2021 at 10:31:44AM -0700, Wes Hardaker wrote:
> Benjamin Kaduk via Datatracker <[e-mail]> writes:
> 
> > "shared PKI root of trust" seems to imply that both parties have
> > credentials that chain up to the same root of trust (or at least that
> > the level of trust in the root is shared between parties), which need
> > not be the case.  In principle the parties can use credentials anchored
> > at different roots of trust, so long as the verifier is willing to use
> > the corresponding root of trust for this purpose.  So we might say
> > instead "and a root of trust deemed valid by the entity validating the
> > authenticated identity".  Or we could ignore it, and try to not be
> > overly pedantic.
> 
> Although that's a very valid point, I'd argue we should aim for more
> readable over perfect and I'm personally thinking we should leave the
> existing, easier to understand, language in place.

Right, that's why I put the "overly pedantic" in "overly pedantic nits" :)

-Ben