On Friday, September 10, 2010 05:53:57 pm J.D. Falk wrote: > On Sep 10, 2010, at 12:34 PM, John R. Levine wrote: > >> The problem is that too many people on this WG take the view "I believe > >> in solution-X (TPA, PGP-MIME, don't use ADSP because it's broke, don't > >> use mailing list if you advertise 'discardable') and I will vote down > >> any solution other than X". > > > > Call me old-fashioned if you will, but I take the view that a purely > > hypothetical paper design to address a largely hypothetical problem, with > > unknown security problems, unknown user interface problems, and unknown > > interoperation problems have no place in a document about actual e-mail > > practice. > > +1 > > It's the difference between Best Current Practices and Things We Thought Of > But Haven't Tried Yet. Either could be published as an I-D, but we > shouldn't try to fit both approaches into the same BCP.
It's not clear to me that there's consensus that anything qualifies as Best Current. We have some small samples of a few things that some people have tried, but I don't sense we're there yet. Scott K _______________________________________________ NOTE WELL: This list operates according to http://mipassoc.org/dkim/ietf-list-rules.html
