What is the balance between the added users and the vendors
who will not integrate PEM into their products due to the
uncertainty in the future of PEM (demonstrated here) OR due
to the added MIME requirements?
I haven't integrated PEM into my products because I require it to work in a
MIME environment. Every day we go without settling on a MIME/PEM interaction
is a day I don't sell PEM-aware mail software.
If I figure in time to market costs, every day of this debate is costing my
company *thousands* of dollars. Eventually, I will no longer be able to
justify waiting, as much as I believe that the IETF process is the right way
to set standards.
What is the cost of having vendors go off and implement MIME+PEM on their own,
ignoring the discussion here? Personally, I think it's very high. But it's a
cost to factor in if you're doing a cost/benefit analysis.
Amanda Walker
InterCon Systems Corporation
PGP Key fingerprint: 594F63C03B52DC4E37E9160DE733CD87
PEM MD5OfPublicKey: 8E4A21B7025943DE2EDC7CC038B3D6B1