Other survey comments from PKI TC meeting

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

Here are some other comments on the draft PKI Ask Vendors
survey that I noted in the discussion at the PKI TC meeting.
I have included my response to each comment below also,
marked with >. Let's discuss these comments and decide what
changes we want to make in the survey.

Thanks,

Steve

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* Should we note in our vendor list what PKI support
   vendors already have in their products?

 > I could add this, based on what is on the vendors'
 > web sites. This is probably useful information, but
 > I don't think it will advance the mission of the
 > Ask Vendors TC (to execute the "AskVendors Implementation
 > Plan" and implement the Ask Vendors Action Item in
 > the PKI Action Plan). Also, the survey already asks
 > for this information so maybe we should wait and
 > see what we get back before taking any action here.

* Have we defined PKI support? This might help vendors
   know what we're talking about. Yes, we should be
   more specific, asking questions about specific
   features. This will be clearer for vendors and
   gather more useful information.

 > I agree that we should adjust the survey to add
 > questions about specific features. This will mean
 > that email vendors will get a different survey
 > from document signing vendors, but that's fine.

* We should ask if they're using something instead
   of PKI.

 > I don't think this is essential to our mission.
 > What are we going to do with this data?

* We should find out if they're planning to use PKI
   in the future.

 > Question 2 already addresses this.

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