Ok, gotcha, but then, we are happy with Thawte and would be unlikely to
start buying certificates from OpenSRS instead.
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Yes, but you must resell a product from someone else; RSPs generally are not of sufficient size nor do they have the market presence necessary to become a Certifying Authority in their own right. If you've got to resell it, wouldn't it be nice to do it through OpenSRS?
I think the point is that if OpenSRS were to pursue this, they would be competing with other providers, and *NOT* competing with their customers.
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Why are RSPs not able to offer secure certificates? We do that just fine via Thawte...
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-----Original Message----- From: William X. Walsh [mailto:william@userfriendly.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2000 09:25 To: Shifter Cc: OpenSRS Discuss Subject: Re: Fwd: New Cert Authority - Are you listening OpenSRS?
Hello Shifter,
Wednesday, November 22, 2000, 12:24:22 AM, you wrote:
> In all the discussions about what *other* services we'd like to see > OpenSRS offer, ahem - or not offer, this would have to be the ONE > that I would like to see happen. Certificates. Not from Verisign. > Enough said.
I agree.
And before someone says this (I know you people too well by now), no my position is not in contradiction to my prior position on other services. This is a service that RSPs as a rule are not able to offer on their own, so it's not at all competing with the RSP's value added abilities.
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