Re: Yes, and remove more of the alphabet from the PKIX soup (Was: RE: Can we now kill CMMF?)

["Aram Perez" <aram@xxxxxxxxx>]

I like Bill suggestion. Less documentation is better (KISS ;-)

Aram Perez
Apple Computer, Inc.

>Folks,
>
> 1.  I second Al's motion!  
>
> 2.  Now, let's start working on reducing some more of this PKIX
>alphabet-soup nonsense.
>
> 3.  Prime candidates would seem to include (for now) CRMF, CMP, and
>CMC.  All can/should be rolled into one document.  
> 
> 4.  Since CMC is essentially a superset of CMMF and CRMF, the latter
>two can/should be collapsed into the former.  
>
> 5.  Since CMP and CMC/CMMF/CRMF are essentially supersets of one
>another, one can/should be collapsed into the other.  
>
> 6.  Since CMC/CMMF/CRMF is of more recent vintage, and currently
>under very active and broad-based discussion, it will likely reflect many
>new lessons learned (especially from the real world of registration), and
>ipso facto obsolete CMP.
>
> 7.  So why not cut to the chase and collapse CMP into CMC/CMMF/CRMF
>now?  
>
> 8.  This will leave us with one, combined, substantially-revised,
>updated, integrated, and thoroughly-scrubbed document:  the "new CMC".
>One-stop shopping for implementers!  Interoperability nirvana at long last!
>
> Comments?
>
>Bill
>
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Al Arsenault [SMTP:aarsenault@spyrus.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 1998 7:47 AM
>> To: ietf-pkix@imc.org
>> Subject: Can we now kill CMMF?
>> 
> [snip]
>
>> So - I suggest that we now kill the CMMF document, as it serves no useful
>> purpose.
>> 
> [snip]
>>     Al Arsenault
>> 
> [snip]