Nelson B Bolyard wrote: > I'm not clear on the separate purposes of the two comment periods. > Is there a statement somewhere, of what their separate purposes are? > > What (if anything) are the would-be public participants supposed to do > differently in one period than in the other?
My intent is that I will start the first comment period at the point where I am reasonably sure that a) we have enough information to make a decision, and b) for cases where I'm leaning towards approval, that there are no immediately obvious showstopper problems with the CA in terms of our requirements. During the first comment period people have an opportunity to point out where I might be wrong about either (a) or (b). > What is the event (other than the passage of a fixed amount of time) > that marks the end of the first and the beginning of the second? At the end of the first comment period I make a preliminary decision to approve or reject the request, or I postpone consideration until some issue gets addressed or some question gets answered. This is the point at which I sit down and provide written justifications for why I'm doing what I'm doing. Assuming that I decide to do a preliminary approval or rejection, the second comment period is for people to point out where my justifications might be bogus or mistaken. > My impression of these things, based on what I've seen so far, is that > the difference is that the first period says "We're thinking of approving > this request. Will you object if we do?" and the second one is "We've > tentatively approved this request. Do you object that we have done so?" ;) Not quite; see above. The reason I decided to split the comment periods this way is that once I make a preliminary decision I really don't want to have to go back and reverse it. In the old system people didn't have a formal opportunity to register objections until after I'd already made a decision. In the new system I want to get the bulk of the objections raised up front, before I make any decision at all. Frank -- Frank Hecker [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ dev-tech-crypto mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto
