RE: httpy:// Mark S. Miller (markm@caplet.com)
Mon, 15 May 2000 08:03:26 -0700

At 01:31 PM 5/14/00 , Tyler Close wrote:
>I wasn't expecting to have any 'well known SLSs'. I was expecting each
>region of the web to have its own SLS. If you're concerned about the
>security of the local SLS, you can run your own without having any
>security dependencies on any other SLSs. This is why the signed SLS
>entry message is just forwarded, as is, around the web of SLSs. You
>might then configure your user-agent to query multiple SLSs and report
>any discrepancies between them.
>
>I believe this is a truly decentralized system that can strongly
>isolate any corruption.

Why should I expect that the set of SLSs that my user agent queries will intersect with the set of SLSs that your site is registered with? 

         Cheers,
         --MarkM