As part of the survey, it was asked whether anyone at that site would be interested in assisting the PGP integration project. Approximately 20 people expressed an interest in the project, and a meeting was organized at University College London on 13 July 1995. At the meeting, the aims and role of UKERNA was described, followed by a description of resources presently available and the nature of the problems to be identified and solved. Each participant then described their personal and their institution's usage of secure email and PGP. After an explanation of the results of the MUA survey, participants volunteered to examine one or more MUAs in some depth and to report back their findings. The detailed minutes of this meeting are presented in Appendix B.
A follow-up meeting at Imperial College on 18 December 1995, had an attendance of twelve. There were concerns about the procedures for mass generation of keys, and Key Escrow. There was a brief description of pgp.net and the TERENA CD. Various key lookup protocols were discussed. Each site then gave a progress report on their MUA integration. The minutes of this meeting are presented in Appendix C.
At the 1996 NetWorkshop, Paul Leyland presented a paper describing the progress of the secure email study. Later that same day, 27th March 1996, an open meeting was held for any delegates wishing to contribute to the study. Those attending the two earlier meetings were also invited, whether or not they were also attending NetWorkshop. The meeting was split into two halves, the first of which dealt with issues of MUA integration and the second with key service and authentication. Because relatively few people present had attended earlier meetings, most of the MUA business covered previous ground. A conclusion was that Netscape should be added to the list of MUAs to be considered. At the key service session, a brief description of the present position was given, together with a few details of research presently underway into second-generation key servers. The meeting then considered the problems of key authentication and management for a site with a turnover of a few thousand individuals per annum. The minutes of this meeting are presented in Appendix D.