From: "Thomas J. Hruska" <shinelight(_at_)shininglightpro(_dot_)com>
The "technical mechanism" of the trust system I previously mentioned on
this list is being _completely_ ignored. It is *THE* most viable solution
anyone has come up with to date in this thread and I am waiting for people
to respond to it.
It's completely unwieldy and renders email, as we currently
understand it, useless. The assumption that you'll be able
to find non-email contact information for everyone to whom
you'd like to send email, or that they're reachable at all
by other means, is not a good one. It also has terrible
scaling properties.
Note that the work of the IETF is done by email and is
dependent upon the free flow of email to be successful. One
of the great things about email is that it's asynchronous.
Stuff comes and goes and we can deal with it at our leisure
or we can deal with it immediately - it's our choice. If
the flow of email suddenly started requiring synchronous
interruptions, like telephone calls, IETF work would become
far more disruptive and more difficult to justify to
employers. And then there's the timezone thing.
Melinda