Yakov Shafranovich wrote:
The charter goes on and on about consent, however aside
from Gordon's HTML blocking thread, there has been no
discussion of that.
Not true... As Selby Hatch has already pointed out, his proposal
was focused on the consent issue. So are the various proposals that I've
made for "license to send" and/or "single user addresses" (stuff like
TMDA). See my first posting on 3-March -- one of the first in this
group... Also, quite a number of the patents that I've listed at various
times have been for "consent-based" systems of one form or another.
There is quite a common misaprehension (as I see it):
that systems which rely on "consent tokens" must solve the larger
problem of "consent based communication".
Clearly, consent token based systems do seek to enforce the
recipients wish for consent based communication.
However, generally, I can chose to consent (or not) to receive any message
(or class of messages) that I can describe, and I can hope
that there exists an agency which will enforce my expressed policy.
This is not merely an academic point. The problem has been generalised
(this is a good thing), we should be able to form a general description
of the kind of things that might offer solutions.
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