Public comment periods

2008-07-18 Thread Eddy Nigg
Frank, right now there are three, maybe even four different CAs in the public discussion. I understand that the CAs are pressuring you to take action, however in order to seriously review the bug information, CP/CPS of the CAs, root certificates etc. as an effort from the community side, I

Re: Public comment periods

2008-07-18 Thread Frank Hecker
Eddy Nigg wrote: I think that by committing every two weeks another CA to the public comments period (or alternatively as you started to do, twice a one week period) we can include and process potentially 26 CAs per year. This should be sufficient by estimating the number of CAs which are

Re: Public comment periods

2008-07-18 Thread Eddy Nigg
Frank Hecker: Unfortunately I think that that rate is too slow. The problem is that as we clear existing requests new requests come in, and if we don't process existing requests fast enough then the queue of unprocessed requests will continue to grow without limit. Reading the above one might

Re: Public comment periods

2008-07-18 Thread Eddy Nigg
Eddy Nigg: It's the time to discuss, which is obviously extended once there is a potential issue, it's the time one needs to review. Should have been It's *not* the time to discuss...' -- Regards Signer: Eddy Nigg, StartCom Ltd. Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Blog: https://blog.startcom.org

Re: Public comment periods

2008-07-18 Thread Frank Hecker
Eddy Nigg wrote: Eddy Nigg: It's the time to discuss, which is obviously extended once there is a potential issue, it's the time one needs to review. Should have been It's *not* the time to discuss...' Understood. But note that from my point of view the start of the first public comment

Re: Public comment periods

2008-07-18 Thread Eddy Nigg
Frank Hecker: (Of course you or anyone else could have been doing review prior to that, based on the information in the bug.) I don't think it to be very useful and efficient to start a review prior to the information complete state and have the CA confirmed by you for public discussion.

Re: Public comment periods

2008-07-18 Thread Nelson B Bolyard
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? What is the event (other than the passage

Re: Public comment periods

2008-07-18 Thread Frank Hecker
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