- From: James A. Donald <jamesd@echeque.com>
- Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 22:32:51 +1000
- To: "Hallam-Baker, Phillip" <pbaker@verisign.com>
- CC: Mary Ellen Zurko <Mary_Ellen_Zurko@notesdev.ibm.com>, Thomas Roessler <tlr@w3.org>, public-usable-authentication@w3.org
-- Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: > I agree with Mez except that in addition to being > timely, I see the outbound issue as one where there is > a pretty clear standards need and W3C is the only > likely contender as a forum. > > The problem of password management is currently > recognized by at least four groups - OpenID, DIX, > SAML, Cardbase/Higgins. And there is the WARP BOF > planned for the IETF in Montreal, work in OASIS and so > on. The primary political objective has to be to gain > some unity of direction and viewpoint and hopefully > make 4 = 1. This four = one, build consensus, business does not seem to be working. DK and DKIM are killing each other - there was no reason or justification for DKIM - the DK people should never have compromised. DKIM is dead in the water and always has been, but since it is theoretically the standard, people are holding off on adopting DK Similarly the attempt to construct a compromise between SPF and Sender-ID turned into a complete catastrophe, that the SPF people originally agreed to, but are now backing away from as fast as possible. The problem is that a reasonable willingness to compromise tends to attact every asshole with a particular interest like flies to rotting meat. Willingness to make reasonable concessions for the sake of unity inevitably results in the demand for utterly unreasonable concessions. Everyone is trying to make spam remedies tow their particular wagon. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 5eQ/BRqtftQb3PGEwemT2q1NvMeE9fLFl+9exxsE 4YVQGC95JliPUmTla6+wze3d4jBg5fNRmwdvb0n+D
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