Re: Trying to do too much (was Re: the introduction problem, etc.)

[Masataka Ohta <[e-mail]>]

Jim Fenton wrote:

> Some of these have
> an introduction problem, and others are explicitly opt-in and could
> solve the problem at opt-in time.

Yes. However, the introduction problem does not have any
scalable solution because third parties, such as CAs of
PKI, are untrustworthy.

 > They might even be merged together

A conventional wisdom, as was demonstrated by IPv6, is that,
if you merge protocols, the result will have all the demerits
of original protocols.

						Masataka Ohta