On 04/04/2012 07:17 PM, Alex Chen wrote: > Steve, > > Unfortunately it has been four weeks and the status is still stuck in > 'coordination'. Well, we all know the government pace is a 'little > slower' than the rest of the industry. There is a 'finalization' > status after 'coordination', what is involved in that status?
I had expected "coordination" to take less time per experience with previous validations. Since the test lab doing this validation reports no known issues or complications I'm still hoping for this to conclude any day now. This morning I had a long talk with another test lab that reports they are also seeing unusually long durations for "coordination" for their pending validations. The wait for a validation can vary dramatically with no obvious rhyme or reason. Several years ago we waited thirteen months for one validation, by which time it was no longer of any economic value. I still don't know why that one took so long when other essentially identical concurrent validations took only half the time. Frankly, if a vendor has a validation need that was more schedule than cost sensitive it would be prudent to do several validation attempts in parallel to try and dodge the risk of being a long wait outlier; and in fact some vendors have done that. We didn't have the funding to burn for this validation. > When an application reaches 'finalization', I assume it will > eventually 'graduate', i.e. removed, from that list and gets a > certificate number, right? Yes, the finalization phase is usually very brief ... of course I thought that of the coordination phase as well. The test lab will typically be informed of the successful validation award several days before the web site is updated, and we will announce that happy news here when it happens. -Steve M. -- Steve Marquess OpenSSL Software Foundation, Inc. 1829 Mount Ephraim Road Adamstown, MD 21710 USA +1 877 673 6775 s/b +1 301 874 2571 direct marqu...@opensslfoundation.net ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
