Re: [dbound] DBOUND and paths forward

"John Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Tue, 24 May 2016 02:09 UTC

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>With that in mind, your co-chairs propose that we abandon any grand unified
>theory of domain boundary evaluation and focus only on this email use
>case.  If there is a change of heart from other communities, or some
>unifying idea does appear, we can re-evaluate our options at that time.
>However, in the interests of being productive toward our original goals, we
>propose to assume that is not the case and will not be in the near future.
>
>So, what say you all?

Given that the realistic alternative is to do nothing at all, sure, why not?

R's,
John