On Thu, 2021-12-23 at 21:02 -0700, Dave Warren via mailop wrote: > On 2021-12-18 08:39, yuv via mailop wrote: > > On Sat, 2021-12-18 at 15:13 +0100, Alexey Shpakovsky via mailop > > wrote: > > > On Sat, December 18, 2021 13:50, yuv via mailop wrote: > > > > What makes the difference between [the smoothly running > > > > messaging > > > > systems] and internet email? > > > > > > I believe answer is centralization and to some extent lack of > > > backwards compatibility requirement. > > > > what is it that centralization brings to those systems? after all, > > they also consists of numerous independent parties communicating > > with > > one another over electronic devices, exactly like internet email. > > Among other things, the barrier to entry is higher with many/most > services verifying at least a phone number (and sometimes the > hardware itself).
Barriers to entry are not an exclusivity of centralized systems. In fact, the complexity generated by independent actors contributing to RFCs and operating internet email represent a much higher barrier to entry than a tightly managed set of requirement under a single authority who accepts any participant that submits to such requirements without subverting them. Embrace, Expand, Extinguish, anyone? Evolving rules by consensus is slower, but hey, look at W3C. What is different in the governance of the web to governance of internet email? -- Yuval Levy, JD, MBA, CFA Ontario-licensed lawyer _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
