Large market player

[S Moonesamy <[e-mail]>]

Hi Dave,
At 14:53 05-05-2014, Dave Crocker wrote:
>If a large market player declared that all mail to and from them were
>required to be written in a specific language, would that we a matter
>for the IETF to deal with?  I think not.  (For all I know, some ISP out
>there already behaves that way.)
>
>Actions like that are at the level of "politics of use" rather than
>"technology of use".  While each of us might have opinions for any such
>policy, it's not the IETF's job or competence to get enmeshed in such
>politics.

A large market player decided that all mail to them should comply 
with a technical specification.  That specification has not been 
published or recommended by the IETF.  According to (unverified) 
estimates the companies with the most email users are Gmail, 
outlook.com and Yahoo Mail.

One of the early comments on the various threads about the technical 
specification was whether the IAB can do anything about the technical 
specification.  There were comments about whether the IETF can do 
anything about the technical specification.  Should the IETF do 
anything if a large market player decides that all mail sent to it 
should comply with a technical specification?  There are different 
opinions about that.  People without influence [1] usually turn to 
the (relevant) government or an organization which they consider as 
influential when a large market player does something they dislike.

Regards,
S. Moonesamy

1. People with influence talk to the king. :-)