So Murray... you mentioned you started talking to folks about this use case at
IETF 77. Were any of them MLM vendors or service providers?
Are there MLM vendors or service providers on this list who feel they know
enough about this use case at this point to have a firm position either for or
against standardizing this functionality?
Speaking for myself (as neither a MLM vendor or service provider), I found
Murray's use case interesting and could see how such functionality might plug a
current hole in the DKIM fabric. I also see immediate applicability for our
PayPal customers. But I don't know enough about the use case or the potential
solution to make a firm commitment one way or the other right now. All I'm
saying is that it seems worth exploring further.
Dave seems to be seeking confirmation of interest from MLM vendors and service
providers at this early stage in order to continue to develop the concepts.
So... is there any other interest in this scenario... form MLM vendors or
service providers?
-- Brett
On Apr 27, 2010, at 3:11 PM, Dave CROCKER wrote:
On 4/27/2010 12:04 PM, McDowell, Brett wrote:
On Apr 27, 2010, at 2:57 PM, Dave CROCKER wrote:
For any specification, it helps to hear from the folks who will write the
software and from the folks who will deploy and use it.
But I interpreted your earlier comment as indicating that Google and Yahoo
were irrelevant and/or non-representative for the sake of this exercise.
I think the confusion is the difference between hearing individual examples,
versus extrapolating them to the larger community. Yahoo and Google are
important and useful. But they are not representative.
So I'm trying to understand who you would consider relevant and
representative for the sake of gauging interest in this use case.
There is a large world of people who develop MLM software and a much larger
world of people who operate MLM services. If we are specifying rules for
them,
it would help to hear from them, that they are interested in implementing
what
we direct them to implement.
Since I haven't been the one espousing change for MLMs, I'm hesitant to be
the
one to try to specify who folks want to have implement this.
d/
--
Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net
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