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Re: [ietf-dkim] Comments on -overview document?

2006-07-10 12:54:20


Bill(_dot_)Oxley(_at_)cox(_dot_)com wrote:
Dave,
This document fine except for the following section
"Usually, email is i/o-intensive, with unused
   computational capacity.  So, it is likely that no new hardware will
   be required."

This should be deleted. For example if others in my organization who
have not followed the mailing list were to see that paragraph they would
conclude that the WG did not have a clear understanding of today's large
mail environment and would tend to resist implementation efforts. The
paragraph above that gives a 10 to 15% processing utilization should
speak to what cpu, what architecture those numbers came from if we are
going to include any numbers at all.
Thanks,

Bill, it seems reasonable to add some language that constrains the assertion.

That said, numbers in the range of 5-15% have been produced by a variety of
independent sources.  I believe this includes 2 very large service and one very
experienced vendor.

The issue about probably needing no new hardware certainly depends upon how
loaded one's server already is.

d/

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  Dave Crocker
  Brandenburg InternetWorking
  bbiw.net
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