From: David Walker <antispam(_at_)grax(_dot_)com>
The reason RMX records haven't made a big impact to date is the lack of a
standard. ...
The idea that writing and publishing a standard as an RFC causes
a protocol or other idea to be used is quite popular. Many people have
the illusion that soon after an RFC is written, the Internet starts
using it. That idea is quite wrong. Publishing a standard has very
little effect on whether a protocol or procecure is ever used.
The purpose of the IETF is to encourage interoperable implementations.
The IETF tends to reduce competition between competing standards, but
it is almost useless for getting a standard used.
However, feel free to see if I'm wrong. You can get an RFC defining
whatever you like as an RMX protocol published within a month. You
don't need from permission me, Paul Judge, or anyone else but the RFC
Editor, and they are quite liberal. If I'm wrong, in less time than
this mailing list has existed, RMX would be fixing lots of spam.
Vernon Schryver vjs(_at_)rhyolite(_dot_)com
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