Heho, The gmail feature 'dynamic email' [1] just flew by me, and I was somewhat wondering whether this is google proprietary, or if there is some standardization going on (already completed?) which I missed. From the product page it currently looks more like an integration in the google ecosystem;
Either way, I believe that this might be something to have a discussion on. If it is backed by open standards, there are some interesting discussions to be had re: impact of such a feature in terms of security/privacy. If this is a google-ecosystem only feature, I'd kind of like to put on my doom-sayer hat and claim that this smells a bit like the death of XMPP; While technically still email (and currently integrated with the rest of the world), google is in a rather dominant market position (~15% of domains, iirc), and such individual-actor product decissions may actually send quiet some ripples through the email ecosystem as a whole (Why didn't you RSVP? I send you an RSVP request from my gmail?!). (Not saying that email's UX can be a tad dusty... but changes like this might really benefit from a really concious engagement with the potential implications.) So, apart from my rather centralization-critical gut reaction... what do you think about features like this being added by individual ESPs and its impact on how email will develop? With best regards, Tobias [1] https://support.google.com/a/answer/9709409?hl=en _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
