there is no reason why it cannot be a generic e-mail replacement
Implementation is relativally simple
Deployment is not. Do you have the support of any of the major
providers of
email infrastructure?
No of course not but that does not mean that it cannot happen
On the contrary, unless you can persuade Sendmail, Microsoft, Lotus to take
notice of you your project is dead on arrival.
this is a research group. we should research and then make
recommendations
This is an engineering workgroup, not a fantasy land workgroup. The scope is
control of spam. Any protocol changes have to be feasible.
BEFORE you propose throwing out SMTP you have to explain exactly what is
wrong with it and the reason why incremental change is not possible.
You don't seem to be very aware of IETF history, but backwards compatibility
and support for legacy systems has a huge premium. Forget persuading
Microsoft, you are not going to persuade the IESG the need for a
discontinuous change.
IF the industry did decide to change the email protocol in a fundamental way
any new protocol would be based on the Web Services framework.
Phill
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