On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 08:14 -0400, Andrew Newton wrote:
In addition to the arguments they have given, I want to point out the
following: we've been told that time is in short supply and that even
taking 2 extra months to understand our requirements will cause
problems. If that is so, then we cannot risk time on a new scheme; we
must limit the scope of the charter to S/MIME or PGP.
But S/MIME and PGP do not survive in transit through existing mailing
lists etc.
Therefore, using either of these would be a significant barrier to
deployment, and would as such be a far more significant problem than any
delay could ever be.
Let's not invent another hairbrained scheme which doesn't actually work
in practice. There's a real world out there; we have to accept it.
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dwmw2