I took a hack at the blog post.  I kept your outline, but ended up
text-editing a bunch of it.  I think it's pretty good now.

On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 10:07 PM, Richard Barnes <rbar...@mozilla.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> We in the Mozilla PKI team have been discussing ways to improve revocation
> checking in our PKI stack, consolidating a bunch of ideas from earlier work
> [1][2] and some maybe-new-ish ideas.  I've just pressed "save" on a new
> wiki page with our initial plan:
>
> https://wiki.mozilla.org/CA:RevocationPlan
>
> It would be really helpful if people could review and provide feedback on
> this plan.
>
> There's one major open issue highlighted in the wiki page.  We're planning
> to adopt a centralized revocation list model for CA certificates, which
> we're calling OneCRL.  (Conceptually similar to Chrome's CRLsets.)  In
> addition to covering CA certifcates, we're also considering covering some
> end-entity (EE) certificates with OneCRL too.  But there are some drawbacks
> to this approach, so it's not certain that we will include this in the
> final plan.  Feedback on this point would be especially valuable.
>
> Thanks a lot,
> --Richard
>
> [1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/CA:ImprovingRevocation
> [2] https://www.imperialviolet.org/2012/02/05/crlsets.html
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