Re: Comments on overall direction

[Rick H Wesson <wessorh@ar.com>]

Karl,

On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Karl Auerbach wrote:

> It's not a big extension to conceive of a digitally signed object that
> represents an instruction to perform some action on some asset - such as a
> domain name.  Indeed, we are part way there with the PGP signed domain
> update forms that we use today.


CORE's protocol does this, PGP signed MIME. Its ok but in my experence the
utility of this mechanism was not all that great. There are certainly
better ways provide the same today. Besides CORE had the requirement
because of other encription issues. Today those barriers are gone and end
to end encription shold be used where ever possable.

In short, we tried your suggestion and I found it to be not that usefull
and burdonsome.

-rick