I support this doc, and concur with Stewart's comments.
Contrary to what some have suggested, we sometimes (ofttimes?) have more than
one standard for no good technical reason. Sometimes very large,
competing companies back different standards for parochial reasons,
to the detriment of consumers, service providers, etc. This appears
to be one of those cases. Moreover, not opposing a two-standard
approach sends a bad message, and encourages similar, bad behavior in
the future.
As the co-chair of PKIX, which has two standards for cert management
(CMC and CMP), for exactly the bad reasons I cite above, I am
intimately familiar with this sort of problem. I failed, in my role
as PKIX co-chair, to prevent this in that WG. Let's not repeat that
sort of mistake here.
Steve
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