Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote:
The major MTA/MUA folks are monitoring the group. If a viable proposal comes up, convincing them would not be that hard. The issue is proving that something is viable.there is no reason why it cannot be a generic e-mail replacement Implementation is relativally simpleDeployment is not. Do you have the support of any of the major providers of email infrastructure?No of course not but that does not mean that it cannot happen
On the contrary, unless you can persuade Sendmail, Microsoft, Lotus to take
notice of you your project is dead on arrival.
Once again, the checklist in the end of the tech considerations document might prove helpful.this is a research group. we should research and then make recommendations
This is an engineering workgroup, not a fantasy land workgroup. The scope is control of spam. Any protocol changes have to be feasible. BEFORE you propose throwing out SMTP you have to explain exactly what is wrong with it and the reason why incremental change is not possible.