Re: [lamps] Proposed addition of header protection to the LAMPS charter

[Alexey Melnikov <[e-mail]>]

> On 6 Nov 2018, at 11:57, John Levine <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> In article <[e-mail]> you write:
>> 3) If it results in an RFC, would you implement?
> 
> Not to be an old grouch or anything, but anything that affects mail
> user interfaces is dismayingly hard to do well and easy to do in ways
> that nobody wants to use.  When we were looking at anti-DMARC hacks
> for the IETF mailing lists I wrote a mail reflector that wrapped
> messages in various ways and sent them back so people could see how
> they looked in their mail programs.  The only thing that was
> consistent from one MUA to another was that they looked awful.
> 
> I think header protection is a fine idea, but without some code to try
> and see if it's usable, we're far too likely to end up with yet
> another paper spec.

I am planning to test existing S/MIME clients that are ignorant of header protection to see how they behave. My hope is that one of 2 proposals described in my draft will result in much better UI experience for such clients. I will send results of my testing to the mailing list.