----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Newton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Oct 21, 2005, at 3:51 PM, Dave Crocker wrote: > > > On the other hand, doing more work takes more time. More time > > means more delay getting more adoption. > > If you are characterizing any change as more work, then you are > arguing for a rubber stamp. > > > In fact I have been getting a sense of some folks delaying adoption > > until the IETF standard is produced. > > All the more reason that we deliver something thought out and not > insist upon kludges for the sake of backwards compatibility. Andrew, I agree with your comments here. The whole issue of backward compatibility and legacy support has put a major damper on SMTP based Email Security R&D. This is perfectly understandable because we have 20 years of world wide standard SMTP legacy operations. Such is not the case with DKIM or DK. There is no global standard. We don't often get an opportunity like we have now with DKIM to revamp industry. The interest is high because the problem is real. If we blew it with DKIM because of this extremely low adoption non-standard legacy issue, we might not get another opportunity until the next new completely different promising idea is proposed and in my view, we kind of running of out available ideas to augment SMTP, you know what I mean? -- Hector Santos, Santronics Software, Inc. http://www.santronics.com _______________________________________________ ietf-dkim mailing list http://dkim.org
