Re: [Sks-devel] 0xd5920e937cc1e39b shows signatures with 0xca57ad7c continuing?

[Robert J. Hansen]

On 06/04/2012 09:56 PM, David Benfell wrote:
> This isn't seeming consistent to me. How do you reconcile...

Quite easily, actually:

>> I've only ever said that the keyservers have always been guided by
>> a "no loss of information, ever" policy.

My position is: "Keyservers have always been guided by a 'no loss of
information, ever' policy."

>> And I've also outright said that we need a way to change this
>> policy, because otherwise we're one [insert legal challenge] away
>> from all of us having to shut down permanently or else fear
>> criminal charges for [criminal offense or EU data privacy 
>> directive].

My position is: "We need a way to change this."

Really, what's so inconsistent about saying "this is the way things are,
and I believe it is in need of change?"

It's true, there's quite a bit of nuance in my position: it's served up
with a soupçon of "we should make sure we understand exactly why the
original design was this way," a garnish of "I'd rather have the
less-than-optimal current behavior than a poorly-thought-out
'solution'," and a dollop of "it's quite likely that a solution for the
particular imperatives faced by U.S. keyservers will not be the same as
a solution for the particular imperatives faced by E.U. keyservers," but
as I said, that's just nuance.