[217] in I/T Delivery
Re: Project Database portion of Joint Project Leaders meeting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Reid M. Pinchback)
Thu Jan 28 08:28:09 1999
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 08:28:48 -0500
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
From: "Reid M. Pinchback" <reidmp@MIT.EDU>
Cc: delivery@MIT.EDU, fortoul@MIT.EDU, tjm@MIT.EDU, brendakg@MIT.EDU,
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Hi Bill, one minor correction to your notes:
At 03:24 AM 1/28/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Other issues:
>
> Internet Explorer doesn't work with MIT certificates. (Being worked on.)
Unless you have heard something I haven't, I think the "being
worked on" part of this statement is incorrect. What I indicated
in the meeting was that I believe no solution is forthcoming.
The problem is understood, but from what I've heard from Jeff it
isn't financially feasible for I/S to address. Apparently Microsoft
keeps changing the already-obscure APIs involved, so we'd have a
significant (read: time-consuming, expensive, error-prone, ...)
code-maintenance burden. His guess is that Microsoft is more
motivated to sell its certificate servers than to give people ways
to solve the problem for themselves.
Of course, I'd hope that if we could get money to fund the work out
of something like EdTech, then maybe.... :-)
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