Re: [wpkops] draft-housley-web-pki-problems-00

(speaking for myself and not Russ… )

Joel is correct that this was an initial draft to start a conversation. The point was to collect some of the technical and non-technical issues associated with deployment and use of PKI. This might then be used to scope a conversation about possible things that could improve the situation and venues for the development of those interventions. This is the first step and any comments or additions are welcome. 

(apologies to Joel and others about the “at the deadline” submissison). 

> On Jul 7, 2015, at 5:53 PM, joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com> wrote:
> 
> On 7/7/15 12:36 PM, Jeremy Rowley wrote:
>> This paper sounds like a wish list of select issues taken from the
>> Mozilla forums.  I don't see why it would be published as
>> informational RFC? Is the goal to make a list of issues that
>> community members feel need to be discussed? I don't get it.
> 
> In general, I'd look at a 00 draft published against the deadline for a
> particular meeting as the opening salvo in a conversation someone wants
> to have, in this case somewhere at ietf 93.
> 
> I have this somewhere in my queue along with some fraction of the other
> thousand or so drafts submitted against the monday cutoff.
> 
>> The conclusions seem to be 1) Have a CAB Forum that is more
>> transparent (which is out of scope of the IEFT - I'm not sure I've
>> ever seen an IETF paper specifically call out to another industry
>> body requesting a change in its membership?) and 2) Use Let's Encrypt
>> - one specific member of the CA community.  Many CAs already offer
>> free tools to automate issuance, making the call out to Let's Encrypt
>> very odd in an IETF document, especially where the touted feature -
>> new automated tools - already exist
>> (https://www.digicert.com/express-install/).  I have a similar
>> complaint about the reference to acme where PHB has been proposing
>> something similar for a LONG time
>> (https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hallambaker-omnibroker-06).
>> 
>> I'm also not sure why you selected the specific issues for inclusion
>> in the paper. For example, the paper doesn't mention inconsistencies
>> in validation levels, which (imo) is a bigger issue than the "too big
>> to fail" scenario. Cost also is a weird issue to include in the
>> document since it's always relative.  It's also very difficult to
>> discuss without running afoul of anti-trust laws.
>> 
>> Jeremy
>> 
>> -----Original Message----- From: wpkops
>> [mailto:wpkops-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Russ Housley Sent:
>> Tuesday, July 7, 2015 8:57 AM To: wpkops@ietf.org Subject: [wpkops]
>> draft-housley-web-pki-problems-00
>> 
>> I want to make people on this list aware of this draft that was
>> posted yesterday.
>> 
>> Stephen Farrell suggested that this list might be a good place to
>> discuss it.
>> 
>> Russ
>> 
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