On Sun, Jun 7, 2020, at 3:52 PM, John Levine wrote: > In article <46e045ae-9691-4f5b-86bf-142c06645...@www.fastmail.com> you write: > >-=-=-=-=-=- > > > >On Sun, Jun 7, 2020, at 9:16 AM, Douglas E. Foster wrote: > >> 3) Some of the discussion has been about how to prevent soclal engineering > >> of the recipient user. This is an important > >topic, but not directly related to the project. IETF would do well to > >establish some recommendations about how MUAs should > >behave, so that trust data can be displayed to the user. > > > >Assuming this can be practically done, I would rephrase this, > >"...[E]stablish how MUAs should display trust data to users." > > We have decades of experience that tells us that the IETF is hopeless > at UI design, and our intuition is usually wrong. > > In particular, displaying warnings that "this may be bad" or even > "this is extremely bad" is known not to work. No matter what you say, > people will click through any warning to get to their kitten GIFs or > porn or whatever.
I didn't know the history of the IETF's approach to UI, in particular, but I'm aware of the research on the nastiness of solving the UI problem. I mostly wanted to clarify that the problem is, indeed, *how* to show that data to users, and that no one has actually ever been able to solve that problem. Thanks, Stan _______________________________________________ dmarc mailing list dmarc@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dmarc
