Comment by fcatalan

AKA the real world, a place where you have older appliances, legacy servers, contractual constraints and better things to do than watch a nasty yearly ritual become a nasty monthly ritual. I need to make sure SSL is working in a bunch of very heterogeneous stuff but not in a position to replace it and/or pick an authority with better automation. I just suck it up and dread when a "cert day" looms closer.

Sometimes these kind of decisions seem to come from bodies that think the Internet exists solely for doing the thing they do.

Happens to me with the QA people at our org. They behave as if anything happens just for the purpose of having them measure it, creating a Heisenberg situation where their incessant narrow-minded meddling makes actually doing anything nearly imposible.