[ih] There is no such thing as an "end-to-end failure"

[the keyboard of geoff goodfellow]

dave, where can the resultant document from/of your Labor Of Love mentioned
below be found?

On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 8:10 AM Dave Crocker via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> [...]
> In the early 2000s, I noticed diligent, experienced email workers using
> wildly inconsistent references to email details and behaviors and
> decided that we needed a comprehensive email architecture document.  I
> blithely figured that I had enough background in the topic for this to
> be a tractable task to take on.
>
> The task was to document the architecture of the /existing/ Internet
> Mail service, with no effort to propose changes.
>
> It took 5 years of extensive interaction with the email community.  I
> constantly produced a draft that resolved all of the outstanding issues
> -- with 'rough consensus' sometimes producing a result that did not
> match my own views -- circulated the draft and would get still-more
> input that I couldn't legitimately ignore (no matter how much I wanted
> to.)  It was, by far, the hardest design work I've ever had to do.
> [...]
>


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