Development Issues

Chair: Ian A. Young, SDSSCaleb Racey, IamsectSean Mehan, GuanXi

All snarky quotes via Peter Gutmann’s X.509 Style Guidehttp://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/x509guide.txt

Zaphod felt he was teetering on the edge of madness and wondered whether he shouldn't just jump over and have done with it.

-- Douglas Adams, "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"

On The 73rd Flying Pig

There is nothing in any of these standards that would prevent me from including a 1 gigabit JPEG movie of me playing with my cat as one of the RDN components of the DN in my certificate.

-- Bob Jueneman on IETF-PKIX

On Flexible Standards

And then there came the crowning horror of all - the unbelievable, unthinkable, almost unmentionable thing.

-- H.P.Lovecraft, "The Statement of Randolph Carter”

On SAML 2.0 Metadata