On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 1:58 AM, Scott Kitterman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thursday, July 30, 2015 08:31:02 AM Olafur Gudmundsson wrote: >> > On Jul 28, 2015, at 8:11 AM, Wiley, Glen <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > Was a decision taken to make the SMIMEA and OPENPGPKEY drafts experimental >> > rather than standards track? — >> >> The chairs and AD’s are worried that Sandards track is a “bridge to far” at >> this point. Thus going for experimental is simpler and quicker. >> Document can be reclassified at later point once the experiment is a >> success. > > Based on previous experience, I think it's valuable to define, up front, what > the experiment is and what success criteria are. What is the experiment > that's being conducted? >
These drafts contain an untested email address local part "encoding", and expose email address information in the DNS. We have had a number of discussions on this, including people involved in the mail community, the draft authors and our AD on the correct track for these documents (for some of these discussions, please see the discussions at IETF 92 (Dallas) - the minutes capture some of it, the recordings more) and it was felt that Experimental is most appropriate. The experiment is: Does the local part "encoding" work well in practice, and will organizations and individuals be willing to publish email addresses info in the DNS? We do not have objective criteria for success, rather we wish to launch this with the understanding that the encoding may change in the future if issues are discovered. W > Scott K > > _______________________________________________ > dane mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dane -- I don't think the execution is relevant when it was obviously a bad idea in the first place. This is like putting rabid weasels in your pants, and later expressing regret at having chosen those particular rabid weasels and that pair of pants. ---maf _______________________________________________ dane mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dane
