[ietf-dkim] Collection of use cases for SSP requirements

[Scott Kitterman]

On Saturday 11 November 2006 17:47, Steve Atkins wrote:

> If nobody is ever going to use a piece of information, then expending
> a lot of effort and complexity to make it available is a mistake.
>
> Given that, plausible use cases are part of the process of deciding
> what to keep and what not to.
>
> Also, if there's a dependency on other standards for some functionality
> (for example, a third party accreditation system of some sort) then that
> dependency needs to be understood, so as to make sure that they
> are flexible enough to work with some subset of reasonable systems.
>
> (I don't see much along those lines with dkim-base, so none of these
> issues should slow dkim development and deployment, but I do see
> them all over with SSP).

This is all constrained by the quality of the crystal balls we all posses in 
order to _know_ no one will ever use a piece of information.  Given the IETF 
track record with predictive use analysis, I don't think we should feel 
particularly comfortable with the idea that we know what will and won't be 
used.

Scott K