RE: [ga] Registration process suggestion

["!Dr. Joe Baptista" <baptista@pccf.net>]

Like Froomkin said - your trying to introduce technology to a
technologically backward world.  Won't work - and you'll get critisized
for it.

And mostof the third world is still on 286 machines running old version of
dos.  CA are a north american odessy which very few people in north
america actually use.

Regards
Joe

On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:

> CA's are accessable to any Linux system, see <http://www.openssl.org>
> This makes them accessible to anyone, anywhere. Anyone can setup a CA.
> Although, the tinker factor is fairly high. However, for our purposes, the
> DHSO.ORG server can be their own CA. In fact, that is the best CA for this
> bunch. Elswise the costs are too high. We have enough developer and SA
> talent in this group that I am sure that we can set this up for ourselves.
> We might even ask Ben or Adam Laurie to help us out here.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law
> > [mailto:froomkin@law.miami.edu]
> > Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2000 7:33 PM
> > To: Roeland M.J. Meyer
> > Cc: ga@dnso.org; Harald Alvestrand; Roberto Gaetano
> > Subject: Re: [ga] Registration process suggestion
> >
> >
> > I think a solution that relies on access to a CA will be biased against
> > most of the world.  CAs are not accessible to most people in most
> > countries, at least not yet.  then there's the problem of concentration in
> > the CA market .... we don't have a clear idea of what a trustworthy
> > identity cert is likely to cost in even the near future.
>