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From: R. Feldman
Subject: Protocol and instances
Date: 27 Shevat 5782
Let the chair summarize.
The committee has discussed the relationship between protocol and instance. I would note the following points of consensus:
1. The protocol is BRIT. It defines how certificates are requested, issued, and verified. 2. Anyone may operate a service implementing the protocol. The specification grants no special status to any instance. 3. Implementations should support multiple endpoints. The choice of which services to trust is a deployment decision, not a protocol requirement. 4. If a service called "Let's Brit" emerges and becomes popular, this is a market outcome, not a specification mandate.
The specification must be explicit: there is no official instance. There is no blessed service. The protocol is the protocol. Everything else is implementation.
—Yaakov Feldman, Chair
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