Thanx Steve,
Your phrase "the rest of us" indicates that I am the only PKIX'er who have doubts regarding the validity of the DPD/DPV-effort. I won't argue with that as I have no proofs for the opposite, but rather base my view on information gathered from other communities, drafts etc. But please continue reading...
Long-term suggestion ------------------------ A problem with the e-mail-list approach including "rough consensus", is that most people are rather timid, and do not particularly enjoy getting publicly bashed. Due to this fact, I believe it could be of some value to add a voting-system to the IETF-mailing lists, where a list-member could send a vote on a certain topic without being exposed on the list. Then an admittedly sensitive topic like "Should we continue the DPD/DPV effort", could be voted on, and you would not only get a ratio of Yes and Noes, but also a clear indication on how many who cares about a subject at all. The suggested purpose of this would in no way be changing anything in the IETF-process rules, but to gather additional input to critical decisions.