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Re: IETF Mailing Lists and DMARC

2016-11-02 13:19:21
On 2 Nov 2016, at 10:49, Ted Lemon wrote:

I think that really what is going on here is that a very small number
of people who talk a lot have prevented forward progress fixing an
issue that significantly affects many IETF participants who aren't
subscribed to ietf@ because of the noise factor and hence haven't seen
the discussion.

That is the opposite impression that I have gotten. It feels to me that what has happened is that the same discussion happens in multiple places with groups that have only some overlap, a person in one group is sure they know the one true solution, and that no one else has thought of it before, so they think that people who say "look at this earlier discussion" are really saying "we don't want to hear from you".

Before I tuned out of this particular discussion (and I'm not sure why I'm tuning in again now...), I was pleasantly surprised by the amount of "A: we should do X" -> "B: but that would have the side-effect of Y" -> "A: arrgh, you're right. How about Z?" -> "C: that would have this side effect" that went on. It was a wide-ranging, open discussion of tradeoffs. After the third iteration, however, the participants maybe got a bit tired or restating them.

--Paul Hoffman