Loughborough, 17 May 2005

1. Development
Issues
Chair: Ian A. Young, SDSS
Caleb Racey, Iamsect
Sean Mehan, GuanXi
All snarky quotes via Peter Gutmann’s X.509 Style Guide
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/x509guide.txt

2. On The 73rd Flying Pig
Zaphod felt he was teetering on the edge of madness
and wondered whether he shouldn't just jump over
and have done with it.
-- Douglas Adams,
quot;The Restaurant at the End of the Universequot;

3. On Flexible Standards
There is nothing in any of these standards that would
prevent me from including a 1 gigabit JPEG movie of
me playing with my cat as one of the RDN
components of the DN in my certificate.
-- Bob Jueneman on IETF-PKIX

4. On SAML 2.0 Metadata
And then there came the crowning horror of all - the
unbelievable, unthinkable, almost unmentionable
thing.
-- H.P.Lovecraft, quot;The Statement of Randolph
Carter”