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	* I don't see anything about this proposal that uniquely ties it to Linux. Seems to me that an improved Module DB Library would be useful on all platforms.		* I don't see anything about this proposal that uniquely ties it to Linux. Seems to me that an improved Module DB Library would be useful on all platforms.
			** [The primarily tie is the suggestion that apps open /etc/pki/nssdb, and the expectation that the OS will supply appropriate code so that a user specific database will be opened when one opened /etc/pki/nssdb. It's true that any OS can implement this proposal. Some OS's may chose a different path for /etc/pki/nssdb [Windows will certainly have to, Mac probably would as well, though they wouldn't need to]. The purpose was to nail down the exact specifics for Linux, and thus the title I initially gave it.]