That would be awesome.  Thanks for the "heads up". All the best. Tim.

> On Nov 28, 2013, at 5:59 AM, "Rob Stradling" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On 27/11/13 15:43, Tim Moses wrote:
>> Hi Rob. I can't argue with that.
>> 
>> But, isn't our focus more on design choices than implementation flaws?  
>> After all, IETF can help fix problems with protocol design and 
>> configuration, but there is less they can do about bugs.
>> 
>> Generally, I would be supportive of gathering more (rather than less) 
>> information.  But, I am also acutely aware that we have to finish the 
>> project on schedule, and we are reliant on the good will of busy people.
>> 
>> Having said all that, I don't object to sending the survey to all the CAs in 
>> the usual trust anchor lists.
> 
> Hi Tim.  Google may soon conduct a survey of all the publicly-trusted CAs to 
> find out what CA software and OCSP software each CA is using, in order to 
> find out which CA/OCSP software will need to be updated to support various 
> features of Certificate Transparency (RFC6962).
> 
> I asked Ben Laurie about this yesterday, and he said he might kick off a 
> survey as early as next week.  (CC'ing Ben).
> 
> If Google do their survey first, then this will hopefully yield a full list 
> of OCSP software authors for WPKOPS to survey.  :-)
> 
>> But, I wouldn't necessarily give high priority to chasing responses and 
>> analyzing them.
>> 
>> I'm also happy to defer to the group if this is generally viewed to be of 
>> higher priority.
>> 
>> All the best.  Tim.
>> 
>>>> On Nov 27, 2013, at 9:30 AM, "Rob Stradling" <[email protected]> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On 27/11/13 13:27, Tim Moses wrote:
>>>> Hi Rob.  I would say "yes" to this if we thought it might uncover an issue 
>>>> that needed fixing.  Otherwise, we might just be creating a lot of extra 
>>>> work for little benefit.
>>>> 
>>>> What do you think?  All the best. Tim.
>>> 
>>> I have no idea if this would uncover any issues that would need fixing.
>>> 
>>> But if we're going to scrutinize the commercial software, why wouldn't we 
>>> also scrutinize the in-house software?
>>> 
>>> In-house software isn't any less likely to contain bugs just because it 
>>> isn't sold commercially!
>>> 
>>>>>> On Nov 27, 2013, at 5:08 AM, "Rob Stradling" <[email protected]> 
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 26/11/13 23:46, Rick Andrews wrote:
>>>>>> Folks,
>>>>>> I’m thinking we should also send the survey to vendors of OCSP Responder
>>>>>> software. I know of CoreStreet, and I’ve heard tell of others, but I
>>>>>> don’t know who they are.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hi Rick.  Some CAs have written their own OCSP Responder software 
>>>>> in-house.  Since it's for their own use, they're not acting as "vendors", 
>>>>> but nonetheless I'd say that the behaviour of this software is of just as 
>>>>> much interest as the behaviour of, say, Corestreet's software.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Perhaps we need to send the survey to every publicly-trusted CA!
>>> 
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>>> Rob Stradling
>>> Senior Research & Development Scientist
>>> COMODO - Creating Trust Online
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