Hi David, So I represent a certification authority, I am also a user, a Linux vendor and supporter of Open Source in general! Except the initial questions and suggestions which were CA related and about which Gerv either provided sufficient information or promised to take care of, my proposals, suggestions and ideas were strictly related to the UI behavior and handling of digital certificates in general by the current Mozilla/Firefox browser.
In order to give the current thread a better meaning and take it out of the current locked situation, I made a serious proposal how to solve this better. As a matter of fact I proposed to form a group of interested parties and individuals (which makes up the Mozilla community), which should continue the discussion and return with results (i.e. defined proposals and recommendations) to the original thread. You may call this domination, but I'm prepared (and perhaps others) to invest time and effort in order to make the handling of digital certificates by Mozilla/Firefox better. Obviously the current situation isn't sufficient (perhaps taken over and never changed since Netscape times) and therefore I feel it important enough to make this contribution. This has nothing to do with CA dominance, but perhaps with some knowledge on the subject, being it as a CA, Linux distributer and with lots of contact with user/clients of such certificates. I hope , that this changes your impression! -- Regards Signer: Eddy Nigg, StartCom Ltd. Phone: +1.213.341.0390 L. David Baron wrote: > On Tuesday 2006-11-07 23:32 +0200, Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.) wrote: > >> Agreed! Did you read our proposal on the Extended Validation >> Certificates thread? Shall I post it here as well? >> > > Please don't. > > Gerv started this discussion so that the Mozilla community could > discuss its position on EV certificates, and so that Gerv could > report that position to the CA/Browser Forum, where browser makers > and CAs discuss these issues. > > So far most of the posts in the thread have been by CA > representatives (and Gerv's responses to those posts). While > occasional comments from CAs may be useful in the thread for > purposes of clarification, I certainly don't welcome such attempts > to dominate the discussion. Given the existance of the CA/Browser > Forum, I think discussion between CAs and Mozilla is more > appropriate there. > > I'd like to see the Mozilla community be able to discuss what is > best for Mozilla's users without having that discussion drowned out > by people who have strong business interests (on one side or the > other) in seeing a particular solution. > > -David > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > dev-security mailing list > dev-security@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-security >
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