In case it is not clear, I believe that my recent note and
Dave's (partially quoted below) represent complete agreement.
That might be notable because this is one of the spaces in which
we often disagree.
john
--On Tuesday, September 23, 2014 13:27 -0700 Dave Crocker
<dhc@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 9/23/2014 1:08 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
>> I meant two secure email standards. Empirically we have two
>> right now, S/MIME and PGP.
>>
>> Since I was talking about security, I thought it was obvious
>> from the context.
>
>
> It wasn't.
>
> And to be thorough, you also forgot PEM...
>
>
> Anyhow, sometimes we need to let competitive efforts develop
> and then let the market choose among them. Artificially
> stifling serious constituenies from pursuing credible
> alternatives is often poor engineering and worse politics.
>...
> FWIW, it's unlikely that the competition in this case has had
> anything to do with the poor uptake of either mechanism.