Re: Draft Charter

["Diego R. Lopez" <diego.lopez@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 20 Aug 2007, at 19:49, Stephen Kent wrote:
> At 12:09 PM -0400 8/18/07, Turner, Sean P. wrote:
> > ...
> >
> > The glossary's definition had more in the 1st sentence which  
> > basically said
> > what the suggested second sentence said - so I get your point  
> > about mushy
> > fruit. I agree that the authority is a central concept to TAM and  
> > that's
> > what I was alluding to with my context comment.  I think it ought  
> > to be in
> > the definition.  How about:
> >
> > A trust anchor is a public key and associated data that represents an
> > authoritative source of some type of information.  Associated data  
> > is used
> > to define the scope of the use of the trust anchor including the  
> > authorized
> > type of information.
>  I still find this too mushy :-). I'd like to see some mention of  
> digital signatures in the definition. That seems to be an essential  
> feature of TAs, irrespective of the use of certs (of any type) vs.  
> raw keys.

Ditto. In despite of the format used (certificates or whatever), a TA  
deals with the verification
of digital signatures.



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