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Subject: More PKI Action Plan comments


Here are some more comments on the PKI Action Plan.
I have removed identifying information to protect
the privacy of the person submitting the comments.

Thanks,

Steve

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In reviewing the draft action plan, an area of concern is
the usage of the term "interoperable". [...] This term is
overused and rarely clearly defined for the specific context
intended. Some vendors and participants may presume the
interoperability problem to exist between PKI implementations.
Others may recognize the interoperability problems as
being between applications enabled to use PKI and the
particular PKI implementations of interest. Still others
may choose to focus on application interoperability when the applications have been enabled to use the same PKI.
It would be helpful to clearly state the context and
boundaries of the term "interoperability".

I agree that reference implementations of PKI and
of applications enabled to use PKI will be a major
contributor to the success of ALL PKIs.  And as you
have said, if more focus is placed on specific
functional areas (such as certificate path validation)
for standardization rather than the proliferation of
substantially repetitive ways to "skin the cat", the
result will be better building blocks.  As we are seeing
in [my organization], the "build it and they will come"
mentality will only carry us so far.

Also, to answer one of your focus questions, I think that
to take two years for fruitful technical guidance may be
under-ambitious.  I understand by my own experience,
though, that the consensus-building effort can be tedious
and drawn out.

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