Stephen Kent wrote:
At 8:39 -0800 12/12/03, Tony Hain wrote:
vinton g. cerf wrote:
...
Unfortunately, the discussion has tended to center on ICANN as the
only
really visible example of an organization attempting to develop policy
(which is being treated as synonymous with "governance"
To further your point, an area completely outside of ICANN's purview, yet
an
area requiring governance is PKI. We are at the point where deployment of
a
PKI has moved beyond technical issues, becoming almost completely the
policy
& politics of "trust". Until the politicians broker the trust
relationships,
there is nothing technology can do.
Tony
Not everyone agrees that PKIs are all about trust :-). Still, even if
one establishes PKIs based on who is authoritative for the data in
certs,
Is there any other way? ;)
as I always suggest, I agree that the major remaining problems
are business and political, not technical.
Steve