On Oct 2, 2012, at 5:27 PM, Warren Kumari wrote:

> More seriously though, this is yet another chicken-and-egg problem…

Agreed.

> In this particular case I think that the easiest / fastest way to get better 
> deployment is to convince the browser manufactures to include support for 
> DANE -- this will incentivize[0] folk to deploy records…

Indeed, but as you yourself noted in an earlier thread:

>> Something that would be very helpful for getting this deployed / implemented 
>> in browsers is number of folk (and more importantly, organizations) stating 
>> that they are planning on / would do DANE if the browsers supported it 
>> natively. Of course, even more helpful would be folk actually publishing 
>> TLSA records :-P
>> 
>> The browser vendors all have limited cycles, and many many things to 
>> implement -- showing that this is something that users (and not just 
>> security weenie users) want and plan to use helps to prioritize developer 
>> time. 


So the best way to get the attention of the browser manufacturers is to get 
*other* people talking about DANE and requesting DANE from the browser 
manufacturers.  Which speaks to the need for a broader outreach to people who 
might be consumers/users of the DANE protocol.

> [0]: Whoohoo, "incentivize" !

Ah, the joys of the English language "evolving"... :-)

Dan

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