Re: [lamps] Proposed charter update regarding clarifications

[Ryan Sleevi <[e-mail]>]

On Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 12:03 PM Stephen Farrell <[e-mail]>
wrote:

>
>
> On 27/07/2019 12:40, Russ Housley wrote:
> > At the meeting in Montreal, we suggested a charter update to allow
> clarifications.  I suggest:
> >
> > OLD:
> >
> > In addition, the LAMPS WG may investigate other updates to documents
> > produced by the PKIX and S/MIME WGs, but the LAMPS WG shall not adopt
> > any of these potential work items without rechartering.
> >
> > NEW:
> >
> > In addition, the LAMPS WG may investigate other updates to documents
> > produced by the PKIX and S/MIME WG. The LAMPS WG may produce
> > clarifications where needed, but the LAMPS WG shall not adopt
> > anything beyond clarifications without rechartering.
> >
> > Thoughts?
>
> Seems like another step on the road to re-creating PKIX
> which at the end produced pointless paper. IMO nothing
> should be done in this WG unless there's evidence the
> work will be implemented and deployed.
>
> S.


While I share the general sentiment, there is at least one clarification
which has clear signs of deployment if there is IETF consensus on the text
-
https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-turner-5480-ku-clarifications-00.html

For example,
https://github.com/zmap/zlint/pull/293 is used by the majority of the
publicly trusted CAs, directly or indirectly, and would actively enforce
such text.

I too appreciate a narrowed scope, and wouldn’t be too miffed if any/every
clarification was a matter for rechartering, and the WG only looked at
chartering with this in scope.