Re: Bad/Good ideas and damage control by experienced participants

Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> Tue, 21 June 2022 14:33 UTC

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Subject: Re: Bad/Good ideas and damage control by experienced participants
To: Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>
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Miles Fidelman wrote on 21/06/2022 15:12:
> Good point.  The lack of awareness of  basic design philosophy 
> (interoperability, avoiding walled gardens, etc.) is appalling.
> 
> It seems like, these days, all people do is promulgate broken mechanisms 
> (e.g., DMARC), in the name of blocking resource sharing & collaboration 
> - bringing us back to the days of a walled gardens and closer to the 
> days of the Tower of Babel, at the same time no less.  And they do it, 
> largely, by going around IETF processes entirely.

the issue is not whether this is true, but how it is presented to people 
who stumble on the same blocks that we stumbled on when we started.

Nick