Re: RFC 2119 violations and DRUMS mismanagement

[Robert Elz <kre at munnari.OZ.AU>]

    Date:        5 Aug 1998 02:29:42 -0000
    From:        "D. J. Bernstein" <djb at cr.yp.to>
    Message-ID:  <19980805022942.19409.qmail at cr.yp.to>

  | > all of us have financial interests in these activities
  | I don't.

You do.   Not as directly as some others perhaps, but as an implementor
of a SMTP implementation that is used by more than just one or two others
you have some degree of reputation at stake.  Reputation can be converted
to cash - and thus you have a financial interest, whether or not you ever
decide to take advantage of that.

I would agree however that the "all" is perhaps too strong, I don't think
I can find any financial interest that applies to me (except just possibly
that my organisation probably spends $'s on e-mail implementations, and thus
could be affected).   I have a personal implemenation that I work on from
time to time, but I don't distribute it (or not widely) - it isn't of the
appropriate quality.

kre