Re: [openpgp] Modelling an abuse-resistant OpenPGP keyserver

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor <[e-mail]>]

Hi Phil--

thanks for the review!

On Mon 2019-04-08 18:26:20 -0400, Phil Pennock wrote:
> The references section uses my name in the SKS reference.  While I
> certainly wrote much of (a vast majority of?) the SKS operational
> documentation, I did not write SKS and am no longer at all involved in
> it.  Another person's name should probably go there.

In -03, I've put Yaron and Kristian ahead of your name there, but i've
left you in place to acknowledge you as the source of much of the
documentation.  afaict, there is no one actively working on improving
SKS at this point :(

I appreciate the work you put into SKS in the past, and don't begrudge
you stepping away from it.  This document is at least in part my attempt
to describe why i no longer have faith that SKS ecosystem will persist,
and an attempt to offer guidance to whatever patchwork of things ends up
supplanting it.

If you still object to having your name there in a historical way, or
you want it listed differently, please let me know and i'll spin a new
draft with your role annotated however you like.

> history has shown that this ease-of-abuse barrier-lowering does
> directly lead to more abuse, including attempts to just spoil the
> entire keyserver system.

i've tried to describe your concerns in the "toxic data" section of
draft -03.  I welcome further discussion on it.

all the best,

      --dkg