Re: [smime] S/MIME publishing mailing list

Russ Housley wrote:
> > > The IETF Enroll WG was chartered to solve this problem, but it folded 
> > > before doing so.
> > >
> > > http://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/enroll/charter/
> > >
> > > We could get the ietf-enroll mail list reactivated if there is interest.
> > I think I have to clarify:
> >
> > My suggestion was not about cert enrollment. I also don't want to invent a 
> > new
> > mechanism. I just thought of a very *simple* S/MIME cert publication tool in
> > form of a mass subscriber mailing list. *Existing* standard MUAs could
> > immediately leverage importing S/MIME certs from signed messages sent to the 
> > list.
> >
> > Even though the ietf-enroll charter sounds interesting it does not seem
> > appropriate to reactivate the mailing list for the purpose I described.
> We need to make it easier to get certificates, and then we need to make it
> easier for others to find those certificates.
Yes. But it's not a hard requirement that we have to proceed in exactly this
order.

> I'm willing to work on both of these.
So there are already two of us. :-)

Ciao, Michael.

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