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Subject: Re: David's comments on the draft Ask Vendors survey
Thanks, David. What a prompt response! We'll go with that text. Take care, Steve Skyberg, David wrote: > Looks good to me. > Thanks. > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Steve Hanna [mailto:Steve.Hanna@Sun.COM] >>Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 9:01 AM >>To: PKI TC Ask Vendors SC >>Cc: David Skyberg >>Subject: David's comments on the draft Ask Vendors survey >> >>Thanks, David, for your comments on the draft >>Ask Vendors survey. My response is below. >>More comments are welcome, of course. >> >>Note that I have moved this discussion to >>the pki-askvendors mailing list because >>we're getting into wordsmithing. David, >>your posts will probably bounce since you're >>not a member of the SC. I'll resend them >>to the list if you cc me. >> >>David Skyberg wrote: >> > My biggest comment is just one of terminology. >> > The US DoD, which is used in the survey as a >> > driving force, uses the term Public Key Enablement >> > (PKE) to capture these aspects of putting PKI into >> > applications. This seems to be a term that is >> > catching on in the industry. Doesn't it make >> > sense to leverage that concept in this survey? >> >>This seems like a good idea. I'm not inclined >>to use PKE throughout the survey because I think >>it's not as widely understood as "PKI support", >>but I do think we should mention it in case it >>rings a bell with some folks. Here's the change >>I propose: >> >>Old text: >> >>... This makes it very hard for users to deploy PKI. >>They must spend large amounts of money customizing >>applications to work in their PKI installation. >> >>New text: >> >>... This makes it very hard for users to deploy PKI. >>They must spend large amounts of money on Public Key >>Enablement (PKE), adding PKI support to applications >>and customizing applications to work in their PKI >>installation. >> >>OK? >> >>Thanks, >> >>Steve
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