On Sun, Jul 30, 2023 at 03:12:01PM -0700, Xiaohui Lam wrote: > 在2023年7月31日星期一 UTC+8 01:26:15<Phillip Hallam-Baker> 写道： > > > I can't see this is necessary and as a matter of policy, restricting > > competition for the sake of saving a few bytes on the wire... The industry > > has enough anti-Trust issues without people creating new ones. > > Are you suggesting that WebPKI encourages large monopolies?
Insofar as any barrier to competition is likely to result in more concentration of market share than would otherwise occur, I think the answer is absolutely "yes". That being said, monopolisation is only one dimension to be considered amongst others, and "not completely ruining the system security" is almost certainly stricly more important than "prevent a monopoly" for the WebPKI, since it is possible (although extremely undesirable) to *have* a WebPKI with a monopoly player, while it's basically impossible to have a (usable) WebPKI if it is fundamentally insecure and untrustworthy. - Matt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "[email protected]" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/d/msgid/dev-security-policy/ZMcgFQgI3HmM6pmv%40hezmatt.org.
