Given the amount of progress the CAB forum has led in the last decade+, I'm not sure I agree with that diagnosis. Plenty of people in the forum I can think of who have forced positive changes due to the strength of their experience.
If anyone should be navel-gazing coming out of this incident, surely it's the trust store maintainers. If there's a big concrete improvement to be made, short of burning down the web PKI ecosystem, I'm not sure it's obvious yet.
If anyone should be navel-gazing coming out of this incident, surely it's the trust store maintainers. If there's a big concrete improvement to be made, short of burning down the web PKI ecosystem, I'm not sure it's obvious yet.