(All old text included for Scott Rea) I'm hoping Scott Rea can take a pass thru this too - I hate to put him on the spot (sure :^) but he comes from a different PKI community & can greatly help us with convergence issues between Grid PKIs and others. I am not sure he is on the CAOPS mailing list & not sure the IGTF mail will get to him in a timely fashion, so added him to the cc list. Thanks, ==mwh David Groep writes:
Hi Mike, all,
Mike Helm wrote:
Thanks for making such an excellent document; I have many small comments & few fairly important ones perhaps.
http://www.lbl.gov/~mike/draft-ggf-certificate-profile-v0_14-mwh.doc
Thanks for the comments! I'll merge the changes and look through the comments to see if I (or anyone else) can improve the text.
I am not sure about those footnotes, is your intention to work on them & incorporate them into the text body, delete them completely, or leave them as-is?
The previous versions has all the explanatory and background text (which is is now in the footnotes in v0.14) interspersed throughout the main text. That was considered confusing, having normative text and annotated ideas in teh same text flow. So the idea was to put all the explanations in footnotes, but in a prominent (same sized) font so that this information and the rationale for the normative text is preserved. So the idea now is to keep the footnotes also in the final version, and add our experience in there.
It seems clear that one of the constraints operating on us is the need to chase various string matching & manipulating habits and features of the grid middleware. I think this should be stated in the first section, so the reader can get this idea as soon as possible.
I don't really get the first paragraph of section 1 either. Is that really true & do we need to say it?
Agreed to both, and the generic first paragraph can indeed just be removed. Will to that in the next version.
Thanks a lot! DavidG.
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