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3. Requirements - Defining Consent (was Re: [Asrg] 3. Requirements Document)

2003-09-25 17:38:30
Kee Hinckley wrote:
At 8:39 AM -0400 9/25/03, eric(_at_)infobro(_dot_)com wrote:
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Anyway. One of the major issues in looking at consent is that there is a gap in the verification process. When a customer hands a list to a bulk sender there is no way currently to verify that the customer has in fact followed any BCP for consent.
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My personal feeling is that the most valuable thing that could come out of this group is a strong statement of consent, with a particular goal of defeating the U.S. Congress', and DMA's attempt to make opt-out the standard model.
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I would like to use this thread for defining what consent actually means. The ASRG charter (http://www.irtf.org/charters/asrg.html) states:

"The definition of spam messages is not clear and is not consistent across different individuals or organizations. Therefore, we generalize the problem into "consent-based communication". This means that an individual or organization should be able to express consent or lack of consent for certain communication and have the architecture support those desires."

It seems that there are two different aspects of consent: consent between the two parties in the real world, and how those decisions are expressed by machines. We need to define both of these.

Additionally, the charter states:

"The research group will investigate the feasibility of: (1) a single architecture that supports this and (2) a framework that allows different systems to be plugged in to provide different pieces of the solution. "

We also need to determine whether it is viable to have a consent-based architecture such as the one defined in the consent framework (http://www.solidmatrix.com/research/asrg/asrg-consent-framework.html).


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