It appears that Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
SMTP email is not the only messaging format in use and it has been
gradually losing market share.
I suppose, although people have been predicting the death of e-amil for
decades and it's still the only messaging system we have that actually
interoperates.
Person to person communication is no longer limited to email, there is
instant messaging, chat, voice and video all growing in popularity. The EU
has decided those infrastructures are going to interoperate no matter what
the execs of certain trillion dollar enterprises would like to happen. And
they certainly have widespread popular support for that.
Yup. I suppose it would be nice to send messages from Whatsapp to
iMessage but we all know how hard it is to do that without letting
everyone in the middle read it.
So it is a matter of when, not if a mail format is added to those other
messaging formats once interop is achieved.
But mail achieved interop forty years ago. It may have its problems, but
that's not one of them.
Regards,
John Levine, johnl@xxxxxxxxx, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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