Hi, (forwarding relevant points to the Milkymist developers list)
Wed, 13 Oct 2010 15:37:38 +0200, Juergen Neumann <[email protected]> : > I have read that you are eventually planning to go to Munic in > Dezember to the OH&OS meeting. I think i will be there, too and > looking forward to meeting you again. Yeah, I'm going :) > I hope we can present your hardware as OHANDA registered there > already! :) > > I have some question though, and I hope you can help me clearifiy: > > Something I would like to discuss with you is the Henn & Egg Problem > of how we get the OHANDA Label and the OKEY (OHANDA registration key) > on your hardware. > > Because finally it means that you will have to change your designs > again to print that on your PCPs, right? Would that be issue? Is > there already a production in greater numbers going on? I guess we can print the OHANDA artwork on the PCB silkscreen and/or on the case. For the PCB: we are manufacturing a batch of 35 early developer boards for late December (27C3) at the moment. The Gerber files aren't taped out yet and we can easily add things to the silkscreen now. For the case, we haven't started design at all. By the way, if you happen to know motivated industrial designers who could handle designing a case for Milkymist One, that would help us a lot. So: technically we can most probably do it for the next batch. Do you have a precise image of what should be printed on the PCB/case? > I was thinking of using OpenSSL X509 certs for negotiating the product > registration. My idea would be, that we (OHANDA) have root CA and we > have a slightly modified config file which you should use (with all > the fields in it that we think would be useful) > > Then you send us a CSR with these data in it and OHANDA signs the > request for each registered product. So then you have a signed > certificate which you could also put on your website stating that your > products are really registered with OHANDA. > > Do you think this would be a good idea? What do you think about it? Sounds overkill to me, and checking the certificates will be cumbersome for users. If you want extra security (which I think isn't really needed anyway), you can simply install a SSL certificate on you webserver to ensure that users aren't talking to a fake one. SSL is supported out of the box by web browser so your extra security becomes more psychologically acceptable. > Last question for today :) > > Do you have any further questions from your side? Are you a legal entity yet? I guess some manufacturers would like to see some proper contract allowing them to use the OHANDA trademark. Best regards, S. _______________________________________________ http://lists.milkymist.org/listinfo.cgi/devel-milkymist.org IRC: #milkym...@freenode Twitter: www.twitter.com/milkymistvj
