[Committee-d] DRM and Allowing Authentication Draft

[Don Armstrong]

On Sun, 12 Mar 2006, jesse wrote:
> > codes and retain identical functioning need not be provided, so long
> > as you can generate the codes or obtain them at no cost to you. A code
> 
> Having been absent a bunch lately, I could easily be misreading or
> rehashing. If I am, tell me to go RTFLogs ;)
> 
> "obtain them at no cost to you" seems to suggest that a vendor could
> provide them gratis as long as the feel like complying, but that if
> they go belly up or have a change of heart, the public could lose.

This is also a problem with sourcecode as well... so I'm not sure if
there's anything that we can do about it.

I was really trying to address the issue where the key infrastructure
requires you to purchase a multithousand dollar key from a CA, and
perhaps in some cases have an insurance policy current for a few
million dollars to cover misuse of your key. [Such a key would be
"available"]


Don Armstrong

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