[ietf-dkim] draft-ietf-dkim-mailinglists-02 review

[J.D. Falk]

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.