This article is a disingenuous description of a lot of bad work. A more honest headline would be "Google making email more complex by introducing more protocols." Instead of just registering an SMTP-over-TLS port, now EVERY message requires an HTTPS lookup and a reconnection. That's not the intent, but the specification was so poorly written that it is the most common interpretation.
All of the input during the IETF draft phase was completely disregarded unless it came from a sponsoring corporation (all of whom are either Google or residential ISPs). This whole process is a shameful illustration of IETF process failure and I hope Google terminates it as readily as they do business units.
All of the input during the IETF draft phase was completely disregarded unless it came from a sponsoring corporation (all of whom are either Google or residential ISPs). This whole process is a shameful illustration of IETF process failure and I hope Google terminates it as readily as they do business units.