> However, if the argument is going to be such that a reputation > system is required, then, considering that that's probably the hard > bit, I would tend to think that such a plan would be useful, no?
I think I'm going to generically call this the World Hunger problem. Is World Hunger an important problem to solve? Of course. Does that mean we should define a standard solution for it? Heck no, because we don't have anything close to a consensus about what the right solution is. Standards processes work great when there's a working prototype and the task is to clean it up, document it, and fix problems around the edges. They don't work at all to invent something from scratch, and very poorly to reconcile competing prototypes that are very different. (MARID couldn't even deal with the tiny differences between SPF and Sender ID). The only sort of reputation system that's anywhere near mature enough to consider standardizing would be DNSBLs, and they obviously aren't what we want. So forget it. At some point the reputation fog will start to clear and it'll become evident what's worth standardizing. But we're nowhere near that point yet. R's, John _______________________________________________ ietf-dkim mailing list http://dkim.org
