Re: The introduction problem, was Thinking outside the box

On 3/19/2013 9:26 AM, Paul Smith wrote:
> That is one big difference between PGP & S/MIME and something simpler.
>
> I could be on the phone to someone, and they ask me for my email address
> to send me details, I tell them it and I add "and my email key is
> 'bibble'". Then, when they send the message to me, their email client
> asks for that, and hey presto, I get the message.


Paul,

The tenor of your postings is one that is quite popular for topics that 
have a poor track record at Internet adoption.  The confidence in such 
postings asserts that there are reasonably simple methods that could be 
extremely successful.

The predicates for such confidence tends to be:

    1. Failure to inspect previous failures in detail.

    2. Assignment of relevant-but-simplistic blame on those failures.

    3. Failure to study the many, varied and serious barriers to success 
at Internet-scale adoption, at the technical and human factors levels.

    4. Failure to formulate a proposal in enough detail to work through 
those barriers.


Ideas -- even good ones -- are amazingly cheap.  Viable ideas based on 
the details that make them viable, are amazingly difficult.

d/
-- 
  Dave Crocker
  Brandenburg InternetWorking
  bbiw.net