Re: charter revisions

[Michael Ströder <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stephen Kent wrote:
> 
> There is not a central registry for DNs
> where the CA can check to verify that the company in question is
> entitled to use the DN it proposes. Certainly this is true if the
> U.S. So, since CAs regularly make value judgements about
> appropriateness of DNs given imperfect inputs, I don't see the logo
> "verification" as something fundamentally different and harder.

Hmm, do you really want to argue based on these practices?
Now guess how serious I'll take this argument...

> >But this is completely pedantic. The original issue was that a logo can
> >change appearance when it's scaled or mapped to different colors. A pink
> >circle is different from a green circle for trademark and copyright
> >purposes. But how do you distinguish them when they're displayed on a
> >black and white screen? I don't think that web page technology has any
> >magic bullets in this area. And what about blind users? With URLs, they
> >can have their screen-reader read the URL back to them. Graphics will be
> >completely inaccessible.
> 
> Good points about the limitations of a logo.

+1

I don't believe that the displaying problems can be solved.

Ciao, Michael.