Re: [Shutup] [ietf-smtp] Proposed Charter for the "SMTP Headers Unhealthy To User Privacy" WG (fwd)

[Ted Lemon <[e-mail]>]

Friday, Dec 4, 2015 11:54 AM Dave Crocker wrote:
> Hence, queries of the 'show your work' type move into the realm of
> etended tutorial to non-experts, rather than helping to the vetting of
> foundational issues for creating a working group.

I share your discomfort.   However, my concern with the approach of simply refusing to answer questions on the grounds you state is twofold: first, it excludes any participation by stakeholders other than anti-spam developers, and there are other stakeholders.   Second, it preserves the status quo, which is clearly broken.   By which I do not mean that you all are not doing good work: what I mean is that because you are so effective at minimizing spam, there is no incentive to actually clean up many of the messes you are working around at the moment.

>From my perspective, quite a bit of useful information has already been shared as a result of this discussion, and it would be nice if that information were collected somewhere.   I think that there's more work to be done.   It may be bothersome to folks who don't feel that these questions need to be answered, but I don't think it's realistic to think that if you just protest loudly enough, they will stop getting asked, or that the practice of header redaction will not become more widespread.


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