Re: Certificate / CPS issues

  *> From owner-ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org  Sun Jun  8 18:27:12 2003
  *> From: "Hallam-Baker, Phillip" <pbaker(_at_)verisign(_dot_)com>
  *> To: "'ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org'" <ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org>
  *> Subject: Re: Certificate / CPS issues 
  *> Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2003 18:16:32 -0700 
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  *> Lets try a thought experiment. Imagine for a moment someone came to this
  *> forum in 1990 proposing say lossy packet routing could never possibly work
  *> because nobody could rely on such a system, pointing out that the Internet
  *> was minute compared to the telephone system and that therefore the Internet
  *> could never possibly be built. Furthermore the fact that the OSI networking
  *> stack was poorly specified and X.500 would inevitably fail meant that the
  *> Internet could not possibly work.
  *> 

Actually, in 1990 a vocal set of people *were* saying exactly those
things.

Bob Braden