Richard,
On Jul 20, 2012, at 9:40 AM, Richard L. Barnes wrote:
On Jul 20, 2012, at 11:56 AM, Dave Crocker wrote:
On 7/20/2012 7:25 AM, Richard L. Barnes wrote:
We have the technology. Surely a CMS signed object (or even just an HTTPS
download) would provide adequate authentication that it came from the IETF.
And it doesn't seem like we would have a problem providing authenticated
documents to the world.
Do you know that these are acceptable to most/all courts?
d/
IANAL, so no. But what else are we going to provide that's better?
We are doing things like signing internet-drafts and RFCs to make this
possible, but it will be a long while before the courts catch up. They are not
exactly early adopters of things like this :-)
Bob