Re: Last Call: <draft-levine-herkula-oneclick-04.txt> (Signalling one-click functionality for list email headers) to Proposed Standard

["John R Levine" <[e-mail]>]

I really hope you're wrong, because if you're not, the only sensible thing 
to do is to tell the mail providers to go ahead and implement the draft, 
maybe the IETF will do something, maybe not.  Registrar EPP has been 
working this way for over a decade, and it would be a shame for IETF 
sclerosis to make it happen to mail, too.

I assume you saw the mail on dispatch last month from Sri Somanchi 
at Google explaining in detail why they want this, and the various 
messages from my co-author Tobias.  I believe they're why this advanced 
from a random draft to AD sponsored.

R's,
John

On Tue, 20 Sep 2016, Dave Crocker wrote:

> On 9/20/2016 10:51 AM, John Levine wrote:
>> Nothing personal, but for interop purposes, the opinions of ops people
>> at large mail systems matter a lot more than your opinion or mine.
>
>
> So, the only discussion I see for this draft is during this last call, on 
> this list.
>
> I see postings from a total of 4 people, other than yourself and the 
> sponsoring AD.
>
> None of the content of the postings relate to the issue about which you are 
> asserting definitive information, above.
>
> That reduces your assertion to one of your own authority on the topic.
>
> No doubt, your assessment is perfectly correct.  However the IETF has 
> typically sought a broader base for assessing such assertions, lest Internet 
> Standards be reduced to individual whim.
>
> Simply put:  The folk who want this spec and who want it to be exactly as 
> you've specified it need to show up here and post their informed views on the 
> spec.  Otherwise, there is no objective basis for estimating the actual need 
> or likely uptake of the spec.