Stupid ideas never die do they

If I understand the proposal it was to make an easier certificate management tool so that instead of having a dialog with your application when it sees a cert you haven't approved that it instead references you to the management tool where you can easily download, inspect and approve the cert. The cert management tool should also make it easy and straightforward for an administrator to pre-load trusted certs, the end result being that you don't have avoidable cert issues in your applications.

That subtly changes the interaction from one where your application randomly pops up scary dialogs where the only sane response is to click "yes, do the thing I already told you to do, and stop bothering me, darnit!" to one where the user/admin is taking a positive action "please add this cert/authority, I trust it" and taking some ownership of certificate trust.

The hope is that this change and features added to the cert management tool can make a lot of scary warnings go away.