[JadeNB]

While the spirit is laudable—I'm not sure if there's an 'e-mail security' version of https://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt, but, if there were, then I'm pretty sure that one of the reasons for failure would be "You are a private individual announcing that you will be rolling out a new standard for e-mail in a couple of weeks".

[adamcaudill]

Change has to start somewhere. Starting with a draft and getting feedback from the community before pushing it ahead for more formal standardization seems like the right place to me.

As I said in the article, my goal is to get people talking about potential solutions. I have little hope that the solution I propose will be accepted and used as is - but if it gets more people talking, and discussions going about something that will work, then it was worth the effort.

[JadeNB]

> Change has to start somewhere. Starting with a draft and getting feedback from the community before pushing it ahead for more formal standardization seems like the right place to me.

I agree that change has to start somewhere, and, to be clear, I don't mean anything against you, but rather against the likelihood of any success: I think that we're stuck with a broken legacy system until something radical, by which I mean "all existing infrastructure is destroyed"-type radical, forces a ground-up re-start.

Nonetheless, there seem to be at least two competing objections to trying to start the change here:

- My point of view: It seems unlikely that the eventual solution (if there is one) will come from a large group carrying a large and representative collective weight, not an individual (or even a small, self-selecting community like HN, or—probably, and with no offence meant—the readership of your blog) with a necessarily specialised viewpoint; and that a large group is more likely to buy in to "let's create a new standard!" than "let's use my / my community's standard that I / we created without your viewpoints or input!"

- Alternatively, if one believes (as it seems you do) that the solution will start with an individual, then surely the thing to do is to deliver a product, not a promise. I don't know about anyone else, but my reaction when I see assurances of delivery RSN is automatic scepticism.