Re: So here it is one year later...

wayne <[email protected]> wrote:
> The chairs/AD asked for consensus from the group.  The consensus was to
> look at the 2821 identities first and then look at the 2822
> identities.  The charter promised that once this decision was reached,
> that all further discussions on other identities would be ruled out of
> scope.

  i.e.   http://www.imc.org/ietf-mxcomp/mail-archive/msg01161.html

  My recollection was that there was a later consensus call, but I
can't find the post.  The closest is:

  http://www.imc.org/ietf-mxcomp/mail-archive/msg01864.html

  Where you note that the consensus of the WG (simple hum, unconfirmed
on the list) was changed to RFC 2822.

> MARID showed just how much more important political considerations are
> in making decisions than technical considerations.

  Almost all spam/anti-spam discussion is political.  We know how to
stop all spam: turn off all email.  Past that, the "technical"
decision to turn off limited portions of email for some reason
(e.g. message/host validation) quickly becomes political.  Some people
will not implement the scheme themselves, and others oppose a scheme
in general.

  Alan DeKok.