[ietf-dkim] Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-dkim-overview-04.txt

[Dave Crocker]

Michael Thomas wrote:
> I think this touches on the important question about all of this: what are
> we trying to accomplish right now? My feeling is that we want as quickly as
> possible to fertilize the fields with as many DKIM signers as possible.
> This is a very straightforward proposition and -base provides the necessary
> blueprint on how to do that.

This is concisely stated.  I think it gets to the core view that many folk 
hold.  And, yes, I disagree with it.  But it's almost refreshing to disagree 
with such a clearly stated view.

I tend towards viewing wide-spread adoption as difficult.  Can't imagine where 
that perspective comes from...

Successful adoption of brand new IETF work usually entails quite a bit of 
post-standards marketing, as in "educating".  Getting folks on the same page 
about what to say is important and difficult.

The view that -base is sufficient presumes a) quite a high level of expertise, 
I believe, and b) quite a high level of effort.  Most managers and decisions 
makers, out in the larger Internet, do not have either.

Consequently, none of the folk in this working group are representative of 
that larger community. (Dare I note that even within the working group, there 
is often disparity on basic point about DKIM, which -overview ought to be 
useful in settling?


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   Dave Crocker
   Brandenburg InternetWorking
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