On Wednesday, March 12, 2003, at 08:44 PM, Damien Morton wrote:
Which sounds awfully like a whitelist system to me. Implementable
today, no protocol enhancements, minimal training, and decent systems
can be pre--programmed to minimize the hassles to people you WANT
sending to you....
Im not sure that the test I proposed implies any particular system,
including whitelists. My own personal preference is a sender-pays
system, implemented at the ISP level, which would be equally effective.
Im sure others have proposals that would satisfy the test.
Sender pays requires a set of standards, cooperative implementation,
some non-trivial infrastructure to make it work, and a lot of time and
energy. Whitelisting is something that can be built on an individual,
site or organizational level without a need of new standards, new
protocols, financial transactions, certification, PKI infrastructures,
or anything else. It can be implemented today, in fact, layering on top
of what's there in most cases.
No, it doesn't solve all problems. but it solves some useful subsets of
problems, which simplifies the issue of solving the next subset.
Its probably a little premature to be voting on various approaches.
I'm not voting. Or suggesting we vote. I'm suggesting that, compared to
some of the "rewrite the world" approaches, we consider more
off-the-shelf and less, well, world-changing ones as well.
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