[Python-Dev] pip SSL

[Glenn Linderman]

On 10/19/2013 12:46 PM, Ian Cordasco wrote:
> Also the three of us maintaining requests and the author of urllib3
> are all very conscious that the packaged pem file is outdated. We have
> an open issue about how to rebuild it accurately while taking into
> consideration (and not including) the ones that have been revoked. Any
> suggestions you have can be sent to me off list or reported on the
> issue tracker.
Is this another issue like the time zone database? Something that needs 
to be packaged with some versions of Python, but that needs a mechanism 
to update it later for accuracy (which, in this case, also implies 
security)?

Could a similar mechanism be used for both?
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