Re: [pki-askvendors] Revised Ask Vendors survey

[Steve Hanna <Steve.Hanna@Sun.COM>]

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Thanks,

Steve

Yu, Jiafu wrote:
> OK. I will give it a try. I think my message to pki-askvendors is always
> returned.
> Thanks
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Hanna [mailto:Steve.Hanna@Sun.COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 3:49 PM
> To: Yu, Jiafu
> Cc: PKI TC Ask Vendors SC
> Subject: Re: [pki-askvendors] Revised Ask Vendors survey
> 
> 
> I don't know, but it won't hurt to ask.
> Would you be willing to do so? You can
> send an email to conferenceinfo@rsasecurity.com.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Steve
> 
> P.S. Don't forget to cc pki-askvendors for
> the sake of the archive! Thanks.
> 
> Yu, Jiafu wrote:
> 
>>Is there any way that we can get some information from RSA conference
>>concerning attendees from the companies that we intend to do survey on. If
>>that is feasible, that will save us lot of time.
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Steve Hanna [mailto:Steve.Hanna@Sun.COM]
>>Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 1:05 PM
>>To: Yu, Jiafu
>>Cc: Shivangi Nadkarni; PKI TC Ask Vendors SC
>>Subject: Re: [pki-askvendors] Revised Ask Vendors survey
>>
>>
>>Yu, Jiafu wrote:
>> > I briefly read the stuff on the web site, I just
>> > have one generic question: When we contact vendor,
>> > who we contact, do we have a list of name of contact
>> > or just the names of companies?
>>
>>Thanks for your review and comments, Jiafu.
>>
>>We don't have contact names yet but I think that
>>finding such names will be our next task. If we
>>can send the survey directly to the right person,
>>we have a much better chance of getting a good
>>answer. Do you have any ideas for how to find
>>such contacts? I'm inclined to start by searching
>>our brains for contacts and asking our PKI TC members
>>for help. Then we can do some Googling. If that
>>doesn't work, we can fall back to using the main
>>contact email address from the corporate web site
>>or calling the main phone number and asking to speak
>>with the Product Manager for product X. I bet that
>>last technique will be surprisingly successful.
>>It's amazing what people will tell you over the phone!
>>
>>Any other ideas?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Steve
>>
>>Yu, Jiafu wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I briefly read the stuff on the web site, I just have one generic
>>
>>question:
>>
>>
>>>When we contact vendor, who we contact, do we have a list of name of
>>
>>contact
>>
>>
>>>or just the names of companies? 
>>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: Steve Hanna [mailto:Steve.Hanna@Sun.COM]
>>>Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 7:55 AM
>>>To: Shivangi Nadkarni
>>>Cc: PKI TC Ask Vendors SC
>>>Subject: Re: [pki-askvendors] Revised Ask Vendors survey
>>>
>>>
>>>Shivangi Nadkarni wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>I'm with you on your thoughts. Lets quickly move
>>>
>>>>ahead once everyone on the SC has given their inputs.
>>>
>>>Since we have a PKI TC meeting tomorrow, I'm going to
>>>revise the survey to reflect our agreements and post it
>>>to the PKI TC list. The only person on the SC who hasn't
>>>commented is Jiafu. Jiafu, feel free to comment at any
>>>time (or not).
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>What are the next steps? U mentioned someone who could
>>>
>>>>help with vendor lists, right?
>>>
>>>Yes. I said:
>>>
>>>  In order to get good contacts for electronic commerce
>>>  software, I will contact Krishna Sankar, who previously
>>>  volunteered to help us pin down exactly what
>>>  our survey respondents meant by "Electronic Commerce".
>>>
>>>I sent an email to Kirshna a week ago. No response yet.
>>>I suspect that he's busy, as we all are. I think we can
>>>proceed with refining the survey and sending it to the
>>>contacts we have now for Document Signing and Secure Email.
>>>Once Krishna returns and helps us figure out Electronic
>>>Commerce, we can deal with that. OK?
>>>
>>>I will proceed with this plan unless I hear objections.
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>
>>>Steve

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