> > The IETF standards process is already so slow and uncertain that > > people throw up their hands in exasperation and go around it. > > True. Which is why it's necessary to handle the reviews in a pipelined > rather than a stop-and-wait fashion.
Maybe I'm unduly pessimistic, but I would have trouble working up a lot of enthusiasm for doing work on a project if I knew that some gatekeeper working in parallel might later tell me that I was wasting my time. Although I completely disagree with your prediction that DKIM will be useless, there are worse problems than standards that turn out not to be used, so long as they are designed so they don't interfere with other more useful work. We seem to be managing that last issue reasonably well. Regards, John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, Mayor "I shook hands with Senators Dole and Inouye," said Tom, disarmingly. _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list [email protected] https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
