{"id":148,"date":"2008-07-27T11:06:05","date_gmt":"2008-07-27T09:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/?p=148"},"modified":"2008-07-27T11:06:05","modified_gmt":"2008-07-27T09:06:05","slug":"off-to-dublin-well-sort-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=148","title":{"rendered":"Off to Dublin (well sort of)!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Today, the Internet Engineering Task Force<\/a> begins its 72nd in person meeting.\u00a0 The IETF as it is known is a standards organization that primarily focuses on, well, the Internet.\u00a0 The work done in this body has included Multimedia Internet Mail Extensions<\/a>, Internet Calendaring<\/a>, Voice over IP<\/a>, and many others.\u00a0 Not all work done by the IETF has worked out.\u00a0 An effort<\/a> I worked on some time ago weeded out the stuff that either was never used or is no longer used.\u00a0 One of the key areas that any standards organization struggles with is how much potentially useful stuff to let through versus sure bets.\u00a0 Sure bets are those things where a necessary improvement or change is obvious to a casual observer.\u00a0 The people who make those changes are not the ones with imagination.<\/p>\n

It’s the people who use their imaginations who make the bucks.\u00a0 Always has been.\u00a0 The problem is that there are a lot of people who may have good imaginations, but are unable to convert a good idea into something that can be broadly adopted.\u00a0 This is a problem for a standards organization because each standard takes time and effort to develop, and each failed standard diminishes confidence in the organization’s overall ability to produce good stuff.<\/p>\n

On the whole the IETF has done demonstrably well, as demonstrated by the vast amount of money organizations have poured into personal attendance at the in person conferences, even though no attendance is required to participate.<\/p>\n

This summer’s conference is being held in Dublin City West at a golf resort, a bit away from the major attractions.\u00a0 There are two benefit of this: first the cost isn’t absolutely outrageous.\u00a0 Second, if people know they the attractions are a bit far off, then fewer tourists will come.\u00a0 I actually don’t mind the idea of an IETF in Buffalo in the winter, but I may be taking things a bit too far.<\/p>\n

Among the many discussions that will take place at this conference include one about what to do about email whose domain cannot be ascertained to have authorized its release.\u00a0 The standard in question that identifies email is called Domain Keys Identified Mail<\/a> (DKIM), and is relatively new.\u00a0 What to do, however, when DKIM is not employed or if the signature sent is broken in some way?\u00a0 This is the province of a work called Author Domain Sender Policies (ADSP).\u00a0 The specification provides a means for sending domains to communicate their intentions.\u00a0 After a year of arguments we hope to have a standard.\u00a0 Whether it proves useful or not will only be shown by the test of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today, the Internet Engineering Task Force begins its 72nd in person meeting.\u00a0 The IETF as it is known is a standards organization that primarily focuses on, well, the Internet.\u00a0 The work done in this body has included Multimedia Internet Mail Extensions, Internet Calendaring, Voice over IP, and many others.\u00a0 Not all work done by the … Continue reading “Off to Dublin (well sort of)!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,9],"tags":[101,99,97,502,98,102],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-security","tag-adsp","tag-dkim","tag-ietf","tag-internet","tag-ip","tag-spam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}