Hi Gerv.  It has to be "opportunity"; we all know that users don't possess the 
capability to manage security on their end systems.

Ooh!  I should put a smiley face after that.

;-)

We made a decision to record the state of Web PKI at a point in time.  (That 
being the end of 2013.)  The state is continuously evolving, and it would be a 
poor use of our time if we were to attempt to track it.  However, if completion 
is delayed much beyond the projected completion date, we may have to revisit 
that decision.

Thanks for your helpful input.

All the best.  Tim.

-----Original Message-----
From: Gervase Markham [mailto:g...@mozilla.org] 
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2014 5:21 AM
To: Tim Moses; wpkops@ietf.org
Subject: Re: [wpkops] Browser behaviour draft

Hi Tim,

On 23/07/14 21:22, Tim Moses wrote:
> Colleagues - I would like to advance the Browser Behaviour draft ...
> 
> http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-wilson-wpkops-browser-processing
> /
> 
>  ... to WG draft.

This document (helpfully) states:

"This document reviews some of the certificate-processing features of the 
following cryptolibraries: Network Security Services (NSS), in two code sets, 
Classic (NSS-Classic) and PKIX (NSS-PKIX); ..."

However, as of two days ago, with the release of Firefox 31, Firefox switched 
to using mozilla::pkix for certificate verification:
https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2014/04/24/exciting-updates-to-certificate-verification-in-gecko/
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/31.0/releasenotes/

You will need to decide whether to hold the document while you update it to 
take account of any changes.

I can tell you that mozilla::pkix also does not do AIA chasing.

"and most end users can manually add or remove root certificates"

Is that a statement about opportunity or capability? :-) Perhaps better
as: "most user agents give end users the opportunity to add or remove root 
certificates".

Gerv
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