--On 8. september 2003 16:46 -0400 Russ Housley <housley@vigilsec.com>
wrote:
Attached is a proposed charter for a new Working Group. Please let me
know if you have any concerns with it.
In Ted Hardie's terminology, this sounds like an "investigative group" -
trying to figure out what the problem is so that we can make protocols that
help.
I see lots of business decisions being made by people who provide these
services, which the IETF can't and shouldn't dictate - it's not clear to me
how the balance between specifiying protocols and specifying business
models is going to work out here. And the protocol work might be rather
small, in the end ("just" reuse some access protocol like WEBDAV, and
specify how signature information and transformation history information is
stored and signed in the datastore, perhaps).