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To: Gordon Tetlow <gordon@tetlows.org>
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Subject: Re: http subversion URLs should be discontinued in favor of https URLs
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In message <20171215050430.GT9701@gmail.com>, Gordon Tetlow writes:

>Running a Root CA brings a huge amount of baggage and we are not mature
>enough in policy to build in a manner that would align with established
>practice for running a Root CA.

Since we would not be protecting People Who Can Sue Use For Big Damages
data, we wouldn't need to run a Root CA to that practice, which is mostly
about Blame Allocation and very little about actual security.

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