Re: [Sks-devel] The pool is shrinking

[Stefan Claas]

Andrew Gallagher wrote:

> 
> > On 16 Aug 2019, at 20:31, Stefan Claas <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 
> > You guys need a lot of brainstorming IMHO on how to improve the SKS
> > infrastructure to get back users.
> 
> I dunno, I’ve been brainstorming pretty hard on this list recently... :-p
> 
> > Maybe it would be a good idea to
> > get the hockeypuck author on board, because it is written in Golang
> > and I assume that there are more Golang programmers available to help
> > you guys out, compared to OCaml programmers.
> 
> The issue is less about the programming (or the programming language) and
> more about the protocol. If we had agreement on a replacement protocol then
> anyone reasonably competent could program it. I know of three SKS *protocol*
> implementations in the wild. Any or all of these could be upgraded to the new
> protocol - IFF we had a) broad agreement on what the new protocol was *for*,
> and b) a robust specification. 

I recently came across dkg's draft. (sorry I don't have a link currently handy)

Since he is a respected community member, at least in the GnuPG ML, maybe his
draft could be used as a reference, to come up with specs, discussed here,
which a programmer could make a software of. At least his draft could be used
as a guideline for discussions.

Regards
Stefan


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