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Subject: Re: [pki-tc] PLEASE REVIEW draft Ask Vendors survey and vendor list
Steve/All, Here are my comments and suggestions: 1) While many of the vendors on this list probably understand the benefits of PKI-enabling their applications, it would be useful to include a paragraph - for Product Managers not too familiar with the benefits of PKI - why PKI-enabling their applications is good for their customers and their bottom-line. It appears to me, we're assuming the vendors already know these benefits and just need to tell us what's stopping them from supporting PKI; 2) In question #1, we ask "what sort of PKI support do they include?"; might it not be useful to provide some examples, such as: a) Digital Signatures b) Certificate-based authentication c) Encryption d) Other: (please explain) _______________________ 3) In the E-Commerce vendors section, I propose we add the following vendors to the list to be queried: a) Middleware vendors, such as IBM, Sun, Oracle, BEA, Tibco, Microsoft, CA, etc. b) Database vendors: IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, Sybase, MySQL, etc. c) Application vendors: Oracle, PeopleSoft, Siebel, Lawson, Microsoft, CA, etc. d) Operating System vendors: Microsoft, Sun, Red Hat, Novell, Apple, HP, IBM, etc. e) E-Commerce operators: Amazon, E-bay, Priceline, Orbitz, Salesforce, etc. I realize that I'm working on defining the E-Commerce section as part of the Application Guidelines SC; however, since this SC is ready to go out with a questionnaire, I thought it might be useful to add to this list now, rather than wait for the E-commerce defintion before we get any answers from them. Arshad Noor StrongAuth, Inc. Steve Hanna wrote: > Here's a quick update from the Ask Vendors SC > with several ACTION ITEMs for you at the bottom. > Please complete the ACTION ITEMs within a week, > if possible. > > The Ask Vendors SC has agreed to the following items: > > 1) Because of time differences, the Ask Vendors SC won't > hold regular meetings. Instead, we'll work by email. > > 2) The Implementation Plan previously posted looks fine. > The only thing that should be changed in it are the > dates. For now, we'll just proceed without updating > the dates. > > The Ask Vendors SC has completed a draft survey that we > plan to send to application vendors for the three most > popular PKI applications, as cited in the August 2003 > survey: Document Signing, Secure Email, and Electronic > Commerce. The goal of this survey is to ask them what they > need to provide better PKI support. Using this data, the > PKI TC will later explore how these needs can be met so > that application support for PKI can be improved. > > ACTION ITEM for you: > Please review the draft Ask Vendors survey at > http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/pki-askvendors/download.php/6801/ask-vendors-survey-20040518.txt > > and send your comments to the PKI TC email list. > > We have also prepared a draft list of vendors who will > be approached for this survey. We could use help finding > good contacts at these vendors (especially people you > *know*, so they won't ignore us). Other changes and > additions to the list are welcome. > > ACTION ITEM for you: > Please review the draft Vendor List at > http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/pki-askvendors/download.php/6802/ask-vendors-vendor-list-20040518.txt > > and send your comments to the PKI TC email list. > > We will also discuss these documents at the PKI TC > meeting tomorrow. The Ask Vendors SC has not discussed > a schedule for sending out this survey, but I expect > that it will go out in about a week. So get your > comments in soon! > > Thanks, > > Steve
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