>
> I agree this makes CH more important. On the other hand we expect
> communication with at least our substrate to occur not very often
> and thus brief downtimes (e.g. for hours) would be tolerable. I
> think everyone agrees that prolonged downtimes (i.e. days) would be
> an issue for any architecture.
Yep, that is one mode of operation. We expect communication to be more
frequent in ProtoGeni. Also, it is not just downtime we are worried
about, but network partition; we would like the components to continue
to operate in the presence of partition.
> Outside of the federal government, there are few widely deployed
> systems that use PKI for anything but TLS authentication. Thus our
> proposal is to simplify GENI along similar lines.
What about ssh? Most people in the research community are quite
comfortable with ssh.
Lbs
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