Re: Fwd: Re: [Jmap] WG Review: JSON Mail Access Protocol (jmap) - reducing configuration complexity

[Dave Crocker <[e-mail]>]

On 2/7/2017 7:38 AM, Gren Elliot wrote:
> You will either be using IMAP/SMTP to access your mail/submit your
> messages or you will be using JMAP.  If you have the option of the
> latter, you’ve just halved the number of things that need configuring.


The primary argument being put forward here is simplification of 
end-user configuration effort.

While that has an intuitive appeal, a basic question for any effort to 
replace and existing technology is how big the benefit will be and for 
how much of the market?

In this case, for most people, the configuration effort is quite rare. 
So while it might be a bit of a hassle, it has no effect on daily life.

Well, ok, there are some folk who have to make this change more often, 
due to Draconian and misguided local policies -- the current advice 
about password changes, from the UX community, is not to make changes 
often, since this becomes a serious attack surface.

But how large a community is this and why is this problem not mitigated 
simply by having the user interface take one password specification and 
map it to the two, underlying (and existing) protocols?

d/

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   Dave Crocker
   Brandenburg InternetWorking
   bbiw.net