Re: [pkng] Where to go? What to do?

[Stephen Farrell <[e-mail]>]

On 28/09/10 21:22, Paul Hoffman wrote:
> Please speak up soon if you think that there is interesting work in our charter, and hopefully start threads here with such discussions. If we don't have sufficient interest, we can close the list quietly.

I believe there could be, but that some of the oxygen has been
sucked out of the room (to keyassure) so I'm no longer sure if
there's a realistic target for pkng, nor whether there're
sufficient cycles for doing work. (I'd be happy if my concerns
are unfounded.)

Assuming keyassure turns into an IETF WG developing some kind
of way to manage public keys in the DNS, (and offers a reasonable
potential successor/addition to X.509), I think this group could
maybe try look beyond that towards pk systems that might start
to be deployed in 5+ years after both X.509 and keyassure are
already out there. But I think we'd have to know where keyassure
is going before re-scoping the work here.

If keyassure founders, then there's a role for this group
in understanding why and maybe working towards fixing whatever
caused the failure. (Assuming the failure is technology
and not personnel;-)

Bottom line for me for now: let's see what happens with
keyassure first before we kill or pump up this group. My
guess is that we won't know until the new year.

S.

PS: I still have that list of things I'd like that I sent to
this list a long while ago.