[ih] IETF relevance (was Memories of Flag Day?)

[Michael Thomas]

On 8/28/23 7:26 PM, Dave Crocker via Internet-history wrote:
>
> We first came to the IETF to pursue the integration but when they saw 
> the challenges between the two constituencies, we were told to take 
> care of it before doing an IETF WG.  This was almost certainly an 
> essential and correct direction.
>
>
No "we" didn't. Mark Delaney came over to Cisco from Yahoo and we worked 
it out. You had nothing to do with that. The meeting at my house was how 
to work out the differences which you and John had no part of. It was 
Eric Allman, Jon Callas, Jim and I and Miles Libby. But before that 
meeting we already had the parameters of how it would be merged.

For people who are interested in the actual history of DKIM I wrote this 
which I've socialized with both Mark and Jim:

https://rip-van-webble.blogspot.com/2021/01/birthing-dkim.html

Mike