RE: TAA definition

[Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@xxxxxxxx>]

At 11:41 AM -0400 8/24/07, Carl Wallace wrote:
>  > I agree.  A Trust Store Anchor may correspond to a TAA, but
> >  the trust anchors that are installed clearly do not (e.g.,
> >  Verisign's trust anchors will be installed by a lot of
> >  entities that aren't part of Verisign).
>
> I don't think we should preclude the use of application TAs as TSAs. 
> An application TA could function a trust store anchor in cases where 
> an enterprise TA is be used to sign TA management requests and 
> serves as the root of a PKI, for example.

I don't think David was precluding application TAs as TSAs. He was 
saying that they all not all TA owners should be TAAs.

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