[3140] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Netscape 6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theresa M Regan)
Wed Feb 13 22:20:17 2002
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Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 22:21:25 -0500
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>, rferrara@mit.edu, vkumar@mit.edu, azary@mit.edu,
longpd@mit.edu
From: Theresa M Regan <tregan@MIT.EDU>
Cc: release-team@mit.edu, discovery-council@mit.edu, jmhunt@mit.edu,
jis@mit.edu, mjv@mit.edu
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Good Day,
At this juncture, I hesitate trying to respond to the various threads on
this topic. I am not confident that I will be able to summarize my
thoughts adequately.
I do wish to raise an important dimension of recommending and/or supporting
"browsers" at MIT and that is web certificates and their behaviour within
our ever growing secure websites. I am not trying to diminish the "file
save" issue being raised; however, within the Windows and Macintosh
spectrums, we have had to delay announcing support for a particular browser
because of certificate generation issues.
If I am understanding the e-mail exchanges, the "release-team" needs some
clarification and direction, sooner than later. From my perspective, a
browser discussion requires the following people...
Bill Cattey -- representing the "release-team" (this covers athena
and its various flavors, as well as, LinuxAthena)
Jon Hunt/Ginny Williams -- Software Release Team
Lee Ridgway -- Netscape Product Release Coordinator
Jeff Schiller -- Certificate expert
Marshall Vale -- Macintosh Development (in particular, MacOS X and
certificate issues)
Discovery Council
Did I overlook any other key roles?
For completeness, we do need to test IE web certificate acquisition under
Windows if any changes are made to the certificate server to accommodate
issuing certificates under Netscape 6
Once we are confident of the participants, I will try to arrange a
convenient meeting, as well as, work with Bill (and any other volunteer(s))
to summarize the discussion and issues.
Thanks,
Theresa
