[Mailsec] A charter for CLIENTID

["Murray S. Kucherawy" <[e-mail]>]

Colleagues,

For those that don't follow MAILMAINT, there was a Call For Adoption issued
for the CLIENTID SMTP and IMAP drafts, but the call was not sustained.  The
working group did not reach consensus to adopt the work for development and
publication; the primary reasons were:

(1) MAILMAINT is chartered to take up only things that are too small to
warrant their own working groups, and CLIENTID probably does deserve a
dedicated working group;

(2) There were concerns with the approach CLIENTID currently takes to solve
the problem(s) it purports to solve.

To me (1) is the main point, and the WG suggested that a dedicated working
group would be the preferable approach.  To that end, I want to test the
waters here.  The process of creating a working group requires a draft
charter and, typically, a Birds of a Feather (BoF) session to explore the
problem space.  IETF 121 in Dublin takes place in November, which is where
we would schedule the next BoF.  The deadline to submit a request for a BoF
is September 6.  If there are people on this list that would be willing to
commit to working up a charter and participating in a resulting working
group, please either reply here or to me privately and we can start this
process up if there's a sufficient critical mass to make this worth doing.

-MSK