On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 12:58 PM Wes Hardaker <[email protected]> wrote:

> Christopher Morrow <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > Pinging this thread to catch anyone who didn't reply but had thoughts
> > I'd like to close this out tomorrow before 5pm EST (10pm UTC).
>
> I've been considering the concept behind this document and whether the
> concept should be carried forward by the working group.  To me the
> starting ID is frequently badly written or has too few editors, etc.
> That always changes over time, so I'm not concerned about that issue in
> particular until it is proven that no one will take it up (and many
> won't volunteer for a question mark).
>
> So, on to the concept: in my younger years I was very strict and I would
> have been against this concept from the beginning, because it does bring
> the status of a given certificate into question.  But my older and wiser
> self has seen far too many difficult and failed protocol deployments
> because of the complexity associated with "everyone everywhere needs to
> do the right thing all the time".  To me, the validation reconsidered
> proposal mitigates some of the very likely real-world, real-human
> deployment scenarios.  And I don't think that the RPKI publicity side
> can take too many negative hits (again, because I've watched too many
> other protocols slow down at the minimum when negative publicity hits
> them).  In short, the validation reconsidered concept reduces the
> real-world impact of necessary and accidental changes, which to me means
> a deployment base that will be stronger even though we're "allowing
> more".
>
> Does that do strange things to the status of a given certificate?  Yes,
> it definitely does.  I know this will ruffle some feathers: but I
> believe the goal of the RPKI was to make a decision, based on available
> data, about the ability to trust that origin's announcement.  Everything
> else has come after, or more likely as a result of implementing, that goal.
> The RPKI makes use of PKIX and certificates to achieve that goal, and
> along the way became a fundamental staple that we're hesitant to
> change.
>
> In the end, however, when I look at the primary original goal, along
> with the need for a robust deployment, the validation reconsidered
> proposal seems well worth the trade offs.
>

I've been delaying responding because I wasn't sure how to articulate my
thoughts (and because I got sidetracked!).

Wes managed to capture what I was thinking nicely.

We should complete this.

Hopefully I'm not too late for my views to be taken into account.
W


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