Dark Mail Technical Alliance

na_mirage · 1 Jan 2015, 09:35 PM

I've just discovered this 'new' project by Phil Zimmerman, Ladar Levison and others.

Its called the 'Dark Mail Technical Alliance'

Its not a competing company to Runbox but a technical alliance.

http://darkmail.info/home.html

I'm aware that none of the elements that they are proposing is covered by any existing RFC standard, their trying to create the next generation of email.

It would be good if Geir and the rest of the Runbox team could give serious consideration to if this consortium is something that Runbox could join.

I think that time invested in this would be better spent than spending resources trying to implement PGP and 2FA support, or doing webmail re-skins.

The Dec 2014 specifications pdf makes for some interesting reading.

https://darkmail.info/downloads/dark...ember-2014.pdf

+ adding link to news article, where comments are mainly along the lines of how the choice of name has negative connotations;

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8822515

smithmb001 · 2 Jan 2015, 02:55 AM

Agree 100%.

David · 2 Jan 2015, 03:11 AM

It would make Runbox's email very popular methinks, if advances (as suggested) like this were to take place.

jl66 · 2 Jan 2015, 05:03 PM

We'll see what they will do... we don't know anything yet.
I don't think Runbox will be interested because they would need to change all they have done.

1 Jan 2015, 09:35 PM	#1
na_mirage Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: UK Posts: 50	Dark Mail Technical Alliance I've just discovered this 'new' project by Phil Zimmerman, Ladar Levison and others. Its called the 'Dark Mail Technical Alliance' Its not a competing company to Runbox but a technical alliance. http://darkmail.info/home.html I'm aware that none of the elements that they are proposing is covered by any existing RFC standard, their trying to create the next generation of email. It would be good if Geir and the rest of the Runbox team could give serious consideration to if this consortium is something that Runbox could join. I think that time invested in this would be better spent than spending resources trying to implement PGP and 2FA support, or doing webmail re-skins. The Dec 2014 specifications pdf makes for some interesting reading. https://darkmail.info/downloads/dark...ember-2014.pdf + adding link to news article, where comments are mainly along the lines of how the choice of name has negative connotations; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8822515 Last edited by na_mirage : 1 Jan 2015 at 10:46 PM.

2 Jan 2015, 02:55 AM	#2
smithmb001 Senior Member Join Date: May 2013 Posts: 162	Agree 100%.

2 Jan 2015, 03:11 AM	#3
David Ultimate Contributor Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Canada. Posts: 10,355	It would make Runbox's email very popular methinks, if advances (as suggested) like this were to take place.

2 Jan 2015, 05:03 PM	#4
jl66 Essential Contributor Join Date: Oct 2013 Posts: 413	We'll see what they will do... we don't know anything yet. I don't think Runbox will be interested because they would need to change all they have done.