Donald,
Your subtle hint that I join the Internet Society is well taken, and I'll do
that forthwith.
My suggestion that the PCA keys be published in the IEEE was based
on the analogy to the NIST publication of the deviation of standard
time, and any necessary adjustments.
Publication in the newspaper, IEEE Journal, Internet Society, etc.,
was only supposed to provide a means of confirming the accuracy of any
downloaded key by a widely-available media. The New York Times is
available in virtually every public library in the world. The same may not
the case for the Internet Society News.
The issue of how we get the word out past the hard-core Internet
techies of old, into the hands of the "great-unwashed masses"
is very germain to the success of PEM, I believe, and an issue
we had not focussed on until this time.
I may be wrong, but I beleive that there may be thousands,
perhaps millions of users who could profitably use PEM
that never access the Internet (directly) at all. They use
corporate e-mail systems or systems like MCImail, etc.
We should be reaching out aggressively to those users, IMHO.
Bob