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RE: dissemination of public encryption certificates

Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@imc.org> Fri, 15 August 2003 04:07 UTC

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Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 20:33:17 -0700
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From: Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@imc.org>
Subject: RE: dissemination of public encryption certificates
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At 8:05 PM -0700 8/14/03, Julien Pierre wrote:
>It would be highly desirable for one protocol to be designated for the
>purpose of solving these problems, as opposed to having a plethora of
>different solutions and having various client programs use different
>approaches, which would get us back to square one.

We are already at that square.

>I believe this is relevant to the SMIME mailing list, even though
>the choice and design of that protocol may not affect the SMIME message
>format itself, as these are major deployment issues.

I'm not convinced that this WG is the best one for the discussion, 
inasmuch as it is not in our charter and the WG is supposed to wind 
down. On a related note, there may be a new WG starting up to discuss 
how to handle certificate management in IPsec (the IPsec WG has 
failed worse than S/MIME on certificate issues). It might be 
interesting to have a single WG that covers both issues.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium

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