Message from discussion Draft 10 of CA certificate policy (ready for 1.0?)

Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!pd7cy2so!shaw.ca!news-out.newsgroups.com!propagator2-sterling.newsfeeds.com!news-in.newsfeeds.com!in.nntp.be!caladan.landsraad.net!secnews.netscape.com!not-for-mail
From: David Ross <nob...@nowhere.not>
Newsgroups: netscape.public.mozilla.crypto
Subject: Re: Draft 10 of CA certificate policy (ready for 1.0?)
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 22:29:54 -0800
Organization: I am @ david at rossde dot com.
Lines: 21
Message-ID: <421439E2.43C60C92@nowhere.not>
References: <42134242.200@hecker.org>
NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.42.52.195
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U)
X-Accept-Language: en

Frank Hecker wrote [in part]:
> 
> OK, now for the hard part...
> 
> At this point I face a decision: to try to revise this policy further,
> or to go ahead with the current draft as a reasonable 1.0 policy, with
> further work pushed to a 1.1 version.

We can keep polishing this forever.  That's the nature of such
policies.  However, I don't think further polishing will really
improve the policy without being based on actual experience in
using it.  Therefore, I suggest it is time for the policy to be
adopted formally by the Mozilla Foundation.  

-- 

David E. Ross
<URL:http://www.rossde.com/>  

I use Mozilla as my Web browser because I want a browser that 
complies with Web standards.  See <URL:http://www.mozilla.org/>.