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Re: [pkng] Some topics for PKNG

Leif Johansson <leifj@mnt.se> Fri, 02 April 2010 06:23 UTC

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>> PS. When you sign-up to eBay, you are essentially signing-up to some legal
>> contract that limits eBay's liability. Same with buying a cert from
> VeriSign
>> (see its CPS).
>>
>> Would this item be in-scope for PKNG?
>>
>> /thomas/
>
> Here is a pointer to efforts along the last item (simple contracts
> exchange):
>
> http://wiki.openid.net/Contract-Exchange#ContractExchangeWGCharterformallyTX
>
> /thomas/


I'm very interested personally (this notion was one of the subjects of
a discussion at the recent ISOC maping the gaps workshop) but I'm not
sure it qualifies as work for pkng. It feels more like a natural 
application of any PK-based technology...

	Cheers Leif

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