On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 12:30:54AM -0400, Yakov Shafranovich wrote
What about interoperability? How will different email providers
decided who is responsible for paying what? Also, who will enforce
such structure? Postal services of many countries use a UN affiliated
organization called the International Postal Union which settles
these matters. Is it good to put control into one body?
It doesn't have to be one body; it can be several companies. Say a
consortium which receives 50 cents per email, and the originating
company gets 25 cents per email. (This will discourage spammers from
playing shell games with fake ISPs). The average person can obtain
read-only accounts, with an option to send one-off emails for a dollar
each. It will complement regular email, not replace it. Something
along the lines of UPS/Fedex/Purolater. Too expensive for everyday
correspondence but just right for files that absolutely *HAVE* to get
there.
What about the issue of spam in Personal email?
The main reason for my proposal was to provide a reliable alternative
without businesses having to lobby for "must-carry" legislation. One
size does *NOT* fit all. The business concept of
guranteed-delivery-come-hell-or-high-water would destroy personal email
if spammers got guaranteed delivery. The "personal" level of blocking
is anathema to business practices. Once we ensure that "personal email"
is *NOT* required to be business-level robust, then...
a) filtering/blocklisting is less likely to be outlawed for "personal
email" because businesses will have a business alternative
b) individuals will be more likely to use filters/blocklists if
businesses they want to deal with do have a reliable alternative.
I haven't specified the exact mechanism for separation between
"personal email" and "business email". It'll probably be separate
domains and/or IP addresses. As another poster on this thread has
pointed out...
Look at the Automotive industry, for some years they have had closed
large scale "extranets" in form of ANX, ENX and JNX. Internet-like
networks with IPSec encryption as standard and trusts between them.
In US it seems that also Health Care operators have bought access from
ANX. Set up mail to traverse this net and you can follow the traffic
in the operator logs, who connected to who for smtp. Disconnect this
mail from Internet and you have no spam this way.
So my proposal isn't really 100% original. It's an extrapolation of
the concept of existing private business networks.
--
Walter Dnes <waltdnes(_at_)waltdnes(_dot_)org>
Email users are divided into two classes;
1) Those who have effective spam-blocking
2) Those who wish they did
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