Re: charter revisions

[Simon Josefsson <simon+ietf-pkix@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Ströder <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>> >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.

I am not that convinced, at least the SVG format seem to aim to deal
with the problems above:

http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG-access/

I don't think this is a new problem that only exists for PKIX.  Logos
are already often distorted in the real world: Black and white news
papers, low resolution screens, etc.  It's not impossible to fake
logos outside the PKIX world, and people seem to cope.

Not to say that the problems of cross-certifying etc aren't real, but
I don't think they are impossible to solve.