Re: SPF and egos

> > Let's leave aside issues of who thought of it first

This is what caused a split in this group to start with.  Meng for all of his
technical prowess has absolutely no tact.  It would seem this could be said
about many people in his camp, too.

If Meng and his crew really want to unite all of us under his banner, he's
going to have to find a way to soothe the egos.  Some of those egos may be
beyond soothing, but I'm not spending over C$2k to visit a foreign country to
try to sell DMP, or to denounce SPF or RMX or DRIP or anything else, or to
comfort my own ego.  Meng and others: Here's your chance.  Make it a good
one.

Don't forget that the Internet is a network of PEOPLE, and we all deserve the
same respect including the spammers.  They're not stupid and none of us are.
We all have egos.

> > and whether it's
> > proper form to start an initiative like this outside of
> > asrg/ietf,

...and lose the respect of most of the IETF in the process.

I've been reading a lot about how this little group of volunteers holds this
thing the marketers call The Internet together.  It's a f****** thankless
job, yet it's their work that gives the big backbones, big software houses,
along with everyone else, a common field to play on.  No solution to deal
with sender verification is going to work without IETF guidance and
"endorsement," if you could call it that, through the Standard Process.

Don't piss them off or we'll have five different schemes with only one from
Microsoft being the most widely used, even if it sucks the most.

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