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To: David Conrad <david.conrad@nominum.com>
CC: John Stracke <jstracke@incentivesystems.com>, ietf <ietf@ietf.org>, isdf@isoc.org, Key Distribution <keydist@cafax.se>, openssl-users@openssl.org
From: "Eric A. Hall" <ehall@ehsco.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 23:29:27 -0500
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Subject: Re: Global PKI on DNS?


on 6/11/2002 11:01 PM David Conrad said the following:

> Why would anyone care about root or TLD _certificates_?

Uhh, because it was requested:

 on 6/8/2002 8:22 AM Franck Martin said the following:

 | The root servers would share the ROOT Certificates and would sign a
 | certificate to each .org .com .net .fr,... managers of this domains...

Other people have given other reasons why this won't work. I'm giving my
reason why it won't work. What people do with their own servers and zones
is fine by me but I'd rather they not crap on the root and TLDs.

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Internet Core Protocols          http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/



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