Kyle,

It's ironic that you're email includes a root certificate 
for "Startcom Class 2" that is not the same as the one 
currently in my browser.  

>There might be a useful compromise: the built-in/vendor-supplied roots
>show a blue or a green address bar, and non-vendor-supplied roots show a
>yellow address bar.  

Bandages on a gushing artery.  More irrelevant information for users to ignore.

>I think the existing mandate that everything be authenticated and
>tunneled end-to-end only hurts the IETF.  We need to develop systems
>within models that actually work.  I am here as the voice of the user
>and of the network administrator, the one who needs to be able to trust
>his hardware and software to do precisely what he expects them to, the
>one who needs to actually use the services we specify.

No. It helps.  Allowing undetectable MiTM is an enormous compromise.  
If corporations or Governments want to monitor traffic - they simply 
need to be the "end" from the user and security perspective.

Paul

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