-----Original Message----- From: John L [mailto:johnl@iecc.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 1:05 PM To: Brendler, Beau Cc: Bret Fausett; NA Discuss Subject: RE: [NA-Discuss] Conversation with Dave Piscitello
Sometimes this is a better approach, perhaps involving consumers at the "front end," than creating something in isolation, then expecting consumers to learn how to "properly" use it.
Actually, in the case of S/MIME it's not really the consumers' fault. Although using S/MIME is easy enough once you're set up, getting the necessary keys created and installed is daunting, even for those of us with a technical background, and the design of S/MIME doesn't let you make it much easier. That's why recent mail security work has focused on technologies like DKIM that run at the server level and don't require every user to set it up individually. The list of issues tangentially related to ICANN is of unlimited size, but ALAC does not have unlimited attention. (Attention has in the past been more of an issue than money.) I think it would make more sense to pick a smaller number of issues more directly related to ICANN and pay more attention to them. Keeping useful information in WHOIS for the benefit of individual non-registrant users would be a good one to start on. Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, ex-Mayor "More Wiener schnitzel, please", said Tom, revealingly. *** Scanned