Re: Old directions in social media.

[Keith Moore <[e-mail]>]

On 1/5/21 2:16 PM, Salz, Rich wrote:

> We had a WG on this, we wrote and published an RFC on this.
>
Yes, and now we have enough experience with this experiment to know what 
was good and what was bad about it.   So let's learn from our experience 
and make adjustments based on that experience.  Instead of trying to 
cripple IETF.
>
> Let’s move on to more useful arguments, like requiring all IETF 
> communications to be plaintext email delivered via port 25 to an IPv4 
> address.
>
Plaintext = good, at least until someone solves the problem of a wide 
variety of user agents being able to edit replies to HTML email in a 
uniform fashion.   We've run that experiment for what, 25 years now, and 
though there has been some improvement, overall the results are poor.

Fortunately, MIME emails look the same regardless of whether IPv4, IPv6 
(or X.25, BITNET, DECnet, or uucp, ...) was used to deliver the mail.  
Properly chosen layers are a Good Thing.

Keith

p.s. I consider your message personally insulting and therefore 
inappropriate for IETF.