Re: Intent to revive "expires" header from draft-ietf-mailext-new-fields-15

Tony Finch wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Keith Moore wrote:
>> Tony Finch wrote:
>>> Not if you store the settings that you negotiated the first time
>>> (ssh-style "leap of faith") and allow the user to check the stored
>>> settings.
>> It seems to me that this defeats the purpose as the whole point of this kind
>> of "security negotiation" (or most of the point, anyway) is to keep the user
>> from needing to be aware of such details.
> 
> At the moment they have to manually type the details into dialog boxes, so
> they are forced to be aware of them. With my design, the MUA fills in the
> dialog boxes and users can pay as much or as little attention to them as
> they wish. "Allow" does not mean "require". Auto-configuration does not
> imply keeping users in the dark.

I'm curious to know more.  Is there an I-D or web page?

thanks,

Keith