Exactly.   The challenges with convergence are akin to a simplified gpg+keybase... increasing its popularity needs further development and proponents to gather a critical mass of users and providers.<p>Trust is hard.  For top-down TLS CA to work, the net needs a fewer trustworthy, sensible, well-secured&#x2F;geo ip&#x27;d&#x2F;leadership nonprofits to be the systems-of-record far out of reach of govt and corporate dictatorships. (icann, iana are a good start, but they could be better.  ssl cert cert authority as another type common-good org.).<p>Also, having a zillion CAs able to independently issue endless wildcard certs for the same domain is lunacy... only the domain owner can be issued certs.  It should be tied to common global record-keeping system as domain name registrars do and&#x2F;or domain registrar-mediated challenge to prove ownership (control panel login &#x2F; authenticated API calls, not just adding some spoofable TXT record cookie or link in an email).  End MITM by rogue certs, at a minimum.