Dave Crocker wrote:
It means that a substantial constituency from industry can
organize to solve a serious problem, can develop
interoperable implementations, can agree that the mechanism
is an important component to solving that problem, can obtain
supportive evaluations as to the nature and technology of the
mechanism, but can be prevented from forming an IETF
working group if a random occurrence of folks with, at best,
incidental involvement in the topic happen to hum against it.
OT, not talking about DKIM:
That could be a very strong point for this strange ritual. For
"random occurrence" I read "some experts in the field", while
"substantial constituency from the industry" sounds like "some
commercial group patented a FUSSP" (see also MARID).
Somebody seriously interested to derail a good idea (maybe he
sells another FUSSP) could support the WG, and then (try to)
block progress within it. If his strategy is to "veto the WG"
he only loses one of his few shots, skip the WG, go directly
to individual submission as proposed standard plus "last call".
Bye, Frank
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