On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 9:35 AM, Scott Kitterman
<scott(_at_)kitterman(_dot_)com>
wrote:
That's possibly true, but given the goal of the working group, it may turn
out
to be the best we can do. In my limited IETF experience, I've seen several
variants of "we aren't U/I experts, so we should stay away from it". That
may
be true, but we may not get out of this one without having to give some
strong
guidance.
For the large fraction of email users today that are doing it via webmail
where the service provider controls the MUA experience directly, the
timeline
for improvement can be relatively short compared to traditional software
deployment cycles.
Do we have any reason to believe that such advice would be read by anyone
in a position to bring about its implementation? How much do MUAs apply,
as Ned cited, RFC2049?
Whatever each of us thinks of our collective UI expertise is unimportant if
MUA developers will end up disregarding our advice and following their own
anyway.
As I've said before, perhaps we should try to encourage major MUA
developers to participate. That would allay all such concerns. We might
even get Sender to matter again.
-MSK