MSO and multiple communities

[Clive Page]

On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, Guy Rixon wrote:

> Let's clear something up.
>
> Hands up all those who think that service providers to the IVO are required to
> accept identity warrants from any community CA inside the IVO.

Yes; if they don't then the IVO hardly exists except in name.

> Hands up those who think that providers will actually do this.

Yes; I grant you that's a greater leap of faith, but I don't see why not.
All they are trusting is that the foreign CA works properly aren't they?
And compared with present practice, in which they mostly trust
user-id/password pairs mostly sent by email, this is going to much more
secure.  And after all, it's not money we're talking about, it's just
astronomical data.  The intrinsic value is about zero.  We need to keep a
sense of proportion.


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Clive Page
Dept of Physics & Astronomy,
University of Leicester,
Leicester, LE1 7RH,  U.K.