[218] in I/T Delivery
Re: Project Database portion of Joint Project Leaders meeting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Susan S. Minai-Azary)
Thu Jan 28 15:17:21 1999
In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19990128132848.00ecc590@po9.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 15:17:00 -0500
To: "Reid M. Pinchback" <reidmp@MIT.EDU>, Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
From: "Susan S. Minai-Azary" <azary@MIT.EDU>
Cc: delivery@MIT.EDU, fortoul@MIT.EDU, tjm@MIT.EDU, brendakg@MIT.EDU,
jjv@MIT.EDU, pbh@MIT.EDU, mca@MIT.EDU, thorne@MIT.EDU, dania@MIT.EDU,
repa@MIT.EDU, tytso@MIT.EDU, gii@MIT.EDU, kelley@MIT.EDU,
bobmah@MIT.EDU, reidmp@MIT.EDU, pakulat@MIT.EDU, jives@MIT.EDU,
cgteam@MIT.EDU, itit@MIT.EDU
Reid's correct:
Changing interfaces with each release
Requires Microsoft's server
Requires software to read certificates that would not run on Macs
The current answer is not in the foreseeable future.
Susan
At 8:28 AM -0500 1/28/99, Reid M. Pinchback wrote:
>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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