David's comments on the draft Ask Vendors survey

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

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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