< rant > > The point of the wildly over-engineered root key signing ceremony is > to build trust by publicly demonstrating at every step there is no > opportunity for intentional or accidental badness to occur without > being noticed.
at some point, long passed, the more pomp, the less safe i feel. there is protecting against technical/engineering threats and protecting against layer 8 through 11. through complexity, it compromises the technical protection to go overboard on the lawyer defense. from this bottom feeder's pov, icann, verisign, doc, ... are too often the layer 8 through 11 threat than part of the engineering solution. > In any event, if you haven't already I would encourage you to provide > comments at the URL Joe referenced. definitely. after all, commenting on icann insanities has had such serious beneficial effect for the good of the internet in the past. randy
