> From: "Thomas J. Hruska" <shinelight@shininglightpro.com> > The "technical mechanism" of the trust system I previously mentioned on > this list is being _completely_ ignored. It is *THE* most viable solution > anyone has come up with to date in this thread and I am waiting for people > to respond to it. It's completely unwieldy and renders email, as we currently understand it, useless. The assumption that you'll be able to find non-email contact information for everyone to whom you'd like to send email, or that they're reachable at all by other means, is not a good one. It also has terrible scaling properties. Note that the work of the IETF is done by email and is dependent upon the free flow of email to be successful. One of the great things about email is that it's asynchronous. Stuff comes and goes and we can deal with it at our leisure or we can deal with it immediately - it's our choice. If the flow of email suddenly started requiring synchronous interruptions, like telephone calls, IETF work would become far more disruptive and more difficult to justify to employers. And then there's the timezone thing. Melinda