On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, Michael Thomas wrote:
william(at)elan.net wrote:
I'm a bit more hopeful than Dave: I hope to be
sipping champagne in Paris after the first working group meeting :)
A working group just to just put stamp of approval is not what I had in
mind and I don't think its common for IETF approach. I really thought we
were going to do real engineering and careful analysis of the proposals,
their features and then decide on combination as part of public discussion
and consensus building.
You're misunderstanding me: my hope is to have a working
group by then, not last call on dkim. That in and of itself
is probably starry-eyed optimism.
I understood you perfectly. You know as well as I do that y! will resist
any attempts to change the combined draft and with both cisco and y! behind
it (and no open-source backed alternative available like it was at MARID)
it will go through and WG will just make minor editorial text suggestions.
You also know quite well that there is big difference in publicly designing
solution (like in open WG) and privately designed one being offered mainly
as is. And yes, I know that in reality even in WG its just two or three
people who actually do design and write drafts, but they work with WG
approval on major issues and regularly gather consensus from larger
group in public on any serious disagreement that comes up.
--
William Leibzon
Elan Networks
william(_at_)elan(_dot_)net