In case it is not clear, I believe that my recent note and
Dave's (partially quoted below) represent complete agreement.
That might be notable because this is one of the spaces in which
we often disagree.
john
--On Tuesday, September 23, 2014 13:27 -0700 Dave Crocker
<dhc(_at_)dcrocker(_dot_)net> wrote:
On 9/23/2014 1:08 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
I meant two secure email standards. Empirically we have two
right now, S/MIME and PGP.
Since I was talking about security, I thought it was obvious
from the context.
It wasn't.
And to be thorough, you also forgot PEM...
Anyhow, sometimes we need to let competitive efforts develop
and then let the market choose among them. Artificially
stifling serious constituenies from pursuing credible
alternatives is often poor engineering and worse politics.
...
FWIW, it's unlikely that the competition in this case has had
anything to do with the poor uptake of either mechanism.