[81588] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Email peering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Crocker)
Mon Jun 20 12:12:29 2005
From: Dave Crocker <dhc2@dcrocker.net>
To: <Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Reply-To: Dave Crocker <dcrocker@bbiw.net>
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 09:11:49 -0700
In-Reply-To: <OF8C9D351F.1EB63E53-ON80257026.003AE7AA-80257026.003BF39E@radianz.com>
X-Songbird-From: dhc2@dcrocker.net
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> Back in the day, there were users of Fido technology networks
> who were concerned with email privacy. They applied a technology
> called PGP to secure the contents of their messages.
Folks,
We are talking about changing an existing system -- one with an installed=
base
of perhaps 1B users, but it's fine if we instead use the much lower number=
of
some "mere" hundreds of thousands of servers.
For such situations, it is considered essential to find a way to obtain
incremental utility, for incremental adoption. It is also considered=
essential
to minimize the critical dependencies for adoption.
It is considered particularly risky to have one strategic adoption decision=
depend upon another, especially when the second has a history of more than=
10
years of failing to gain major adoption (or rather, use.)
We could go into a long and painful discussion about the reasons these=
lessons
are valid, but the reality is that they are not all that difficult to
appreciate, if one looks at the process of obtaining global adoption in a
voluntary environment.
d/
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Dave Crocker
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