I understand the minimal-MIME enhancements to PEM-only UAs.
I need a question answered - probably by those resposible for
the respect to be given to RFCs and proposed standards.
May I deploy, now, an RFC 1421 PEM, and sell it to people as worthy
of their commiting time and resources to building and using for
at least 12 months? Are others deploying it so that our sites will
be able to _interwork_ with other implementations to make it all
worthwhile?
If the answer is no, then, I dont mind. We just drop actual deployment
of Internet secure-mail, until the documents finally stabalize.
I think this is the question Stef asked
as the strategic level. Now Im asking it in order to take
deployment decisions.
Our reading here of the Internet lists is that it is not
sensible to deploy 1421 PEM implementations. Overall IETF
consensus has not been achieved despite ratifiction of the
proposed standard status.
It is deployed, at least to the extent of potentially to every
ISODE user, in at least four ISODE-based versions of the PEM code, then
this scale is sufficient to worry about the image of PEM should the
standard change.
(Hoping for an assertive yes answer...)
Peter.