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Re: [Asrg] Soundness of silence

2009-06-17 06:57:00


--On 16 June 2009 14:55:08 -0400 Bill Cole <asrg3(_at_)billmail(_dot_)scconsult(_dot_)com> wrote:


Figuring out a way to get the tools for online accountability into
essentially universal use without a pre-existing adjunct authoritarian
polity and without creating the tools for rapid creation of a new
authoritarian polity would be a very interesting and challenging research
goal. I think it is outside of IRTF scope.

Surely it's the only way forward, even if it's a long road.

Accountability doesn't have to go all the way back to the sender - it can rest with domain and host admins. At the moment, IP reputation services are quite mature, but they're not really usable - you can't ask email recipients to list IP addresses that they trust. Domain reputation services aren't usable because, in the absence of widespread adoption of technologies that

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Ian Eiloart
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