On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 01:23, Alan DeKok wrote:
a) establish a framework so that every party to those email
messages has sufficient information to verify (at some level)
that the other parties have consented to the email being sent.
(end user, ISP, MTA's, sender, recipient, etc.)
...
The first choice involves re-designing the Internet from scratch (by
some accounts), and will cost billions of dollars, and take decades to
implement.
It does not. If the protocol is added as a direct query protocol (that is, not
as part of the transport itself), it can be deployed witout any basic change
to the network, provided it is done by means of the sender *querying* for
consent. The SMTP banner and BMPP approaches are examples of this.
--
Troy Rollo Chairman, CAUBE.AU
asrg(_at_)troy(_dot_)rollo(_dot_)name Executive Director,
iCAUCE
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