On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 01:44:38PM +0900, Michael Richardson wrote:
> You are using the word "registry", but it's a registrar.  The
> different in the word is perhaps subtle, but very significant.

Yes, it is and I'm sorry for mixing the terminology. However, either of
them should be better distributed to achieve a good level of autonomic
networking.

> And, the centralized nature of current PKI implementations is an
> implementation limitation, not an architectural limitation.
> 
> The architecture supports talking the nearest registrar which is
> functioning.  There are PKI implementation challenges with
> partitioning of the PKIX SerialNumber space (which must be unique),
> but it's a solved problem.

This is a good point, and considering this with some constraints imposed
to the implementation, it could conform a proper mechanism even for the
highly dynamic scenarios (as the disaster scenario I mentioned before).

Regards,
Pedro

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Pedro Martinez-Julia
Network Science and Convergence Device Technology Laboratory
Network System Research Institute
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)
4-2-1, Nukui-Kitamachi, Koganei, Tokyo 184-8795, Japan
Email: [email protected]
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