On 5/27/12 6:53 AM, Gabor Kiss wrote: > My idea: there shoud be five wise and trusted peoples -- i.e. > a committee.
Theoretically possible, although it'd be very difficult to find five people the entire PGP community could/would trust. As soon as you introduce a committee of people with some kind of special power, you open the door to conspiracy theories and every whackjob out there screaming that the Keyserver Committee is the Second Coming of the Trilateral Commission. The completely decentralized nature of the keyserver network is a strength, not a weakness: it means there's no central authority which can be corrupted or subverted. As soon as there's a committee, the door is open for malicious actors to start applying leverage for their own ends. So, yes, this proposal is technically possible but I can't imagine it's politically possible. Too much disagreement over who ought be on the committee, and too much opportunity for malicious actors to exercise leverage. Plus, the instant there's a committee the committee members will likely become legally responsible for the content of the network. If someone were to upload child porn to the keyserver network in the form of an image masquerading as a photo ID, the committee members could arguably be on the hook for criminal prosecution and/or civil liability. Frankly, I don't want that. I already have enough nightmares about running just one keyserver and the possible liabilities that could result without becoming responsible for *all* keyservers in *all* countries and *all* jurisdictions. _______________________________________________ Sks-devel mailing list Sks-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/sks-devel