Yes, but you must resell a product from someone else; RSPs generally are not
of sufficient size nor do they have the market presence necessary to become
a Certifying Authority in their own right. If you've got to resell it,
wouldn't it be nice to do it through OpenSRS?
I think the point is that if OpenSRS were to pursue this, they would be
competing with other providers, and *NOT* competing with their customers.
Regards,
Eric Longman
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Kells" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Friday, November 24, 2000 11:12 AM
Subject: RE: Fwd: New Cert Authority - Are you listening OpenSRS?
Why are RSPs not able to offer secure certificates? We do that just fine
via Thawte...
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-----Original Message-----
From: William X. Walsh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2000 09:25
To: Shifter
Cc: OpenSRS Discuss
Subject: Re: Fwd: New Cert Authority - Are you listening OpenSRS?
Hello Shifter,
Wednesday, November 22, 2000, 12:24:22 AM, you wrote:
> In all the discussions about what *other* services we'd like to see
> OpenSRS offer, ahem - or not offer, this would have to be the ONE
> that I would like to see happen. Certificates. Not from Verisign.
> Enough said.
I agree.
And before someone says this (I know you people too well by now), no
my position is not in contradiction to my prior position on other
services. This is a service that RSPs as a rule are not able to offer
on their own, so it's not at all competing with the RSP's value added
abilities.
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