a news.com article covering the very discussions going on here (you
all
are aware that the press is reading these archives and reporting on
what they are reading, right?)...anyways, from a news.com article
entitled "Standards group scuttles Microsoft e-mail proposal":
Media is reading too much into technical and other discussions going on
this group. This kind of media attention in my view is not helpfull to
the the IETF process.
Well, yes. But that really wasn't my point so much as that Microsoft
is saying this about what is going on here, and their plans:
"Microsoft spokesman Sean Sundwall said the company would continue with
its plans
to develop its own proposal, Caller ID for E-mail. In August, Microsoft
had
feted more than 80 e-mail service providers in Redmond, Wash., as part
of the
E-mail Service Provider Consortium. Between the company's participation
in that
group and the Anti-Spam Technical Alliance, Microsoft has done a good
job of
selling major Internet infrastructure companies on the benefits of its
proposal.
Sundwall would not say whether the IETF's censure would hinder the
company's
quest to get its Caller ID proposal accepted as a de facto Internet
standard.
But he did note that many participants stayed out of the vote on
Microsoft's
involvement.
"If you look at the number of contributors that (voted), it is very
small," he
said."
I felt that a fairly interesting data point for what it means for
several aspects of the discussions going on here.
Anne