[2958] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: IETF building GAK into the PKI
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Cox)
Tue Jul 14 14:47:06 1998
In-Reply-To: <199807141756.NAA03524@jekyll.piermont.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 14:37:50 -0400
To: perry@piermont.com
From: Ben Cox <cox@djehuti.com>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
I said:
> The people who design systems like PKIX work for the companies who are
> getting those contracts (and hence, those of you "in hiring positions"
> aren't likely to see their resumes any time soon).
Perry Metzger wrote:
> I think you are mistaken about what many of us do for a living. Many
> of us (such as myself) are professionals who do this stuff for a
> living, and most certainly *do* see the resumes of the sort of people
> in question. Many of us *are* the sort of people in question.
Oh, I understand perfectly well what many of the people on this list (such
as myself) do for a living.
I think you missed my point.
It wasn't that *you* aren't likely to be in a position to be hiring them.
It was that you aren't likely to be in a position to be hiring *them*.
To spell it out: in my humble opinion, the people who designed PKIX likely
aren't going to be needing to look for jobs (at all) any time soon. As I
said in the remainder of my paragraph:
> The companies they work for (e.g., IBM) didn't get to be where they are
> by ignoring the requirements of their customers, and they aren't about to
> start doing so now.
And they value the employees who design the systems that meet those
requirements.
--
Ben Cox <cox@djehuti.com>
(Disclaimer: the above is my personal opinion, which
isn't endorsed by anybody else; I speak for nobody but me.)
