David E. Ross wrote:
> I believe that trust should require public disclosure.

Citizens of France have no choice but to "trust" their government, to a 
certain extent. In that the government can exercise jurisdiction over 
them. Is the proposed certificate arrangement not just a reflection of 
reality?

> If appropriate, we could have another list of certificates added to the
> "Included" and "Pending" lists: "Not Approved" with only those root
> certificates that Mozilla was formally requested to install but were
> denied approval.  The reason for disapproval would be indicated.  Links
> to the CA and for downloading certificates could be included, with
> warnings that the users install such certificates at their own risk.

We could do this; but why is Not Approved different from Didn't Apply? 
Is CACert Not Approved, or didn't they get far enough into the process?

Gerv
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