Thanks for the response, Steve. Alex
On Apr 4, 2012, at 4:58 PM, Steve Marquess wrote: > 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 ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
