Douglas Otis wrote:
Claudio,
An alternative for tokens would be to offer message links. Rather than
sending messages, a reference to a message is exchanged instead. The
link format associated with the message should allow recipients a means
to know who issued the message. This would eliminate a need to track
delivery status. Unless the recipient follows the link, the message
would not be considered delivered. Receiving MTAs could offer a menu to
allow recipients a means to automatically fetch messages from specific
links as a method to save time when online, especially when dealing with
slow uplinks. This mode of operation might be globally used to ensure
compatibility with existing MUAs or domains that don't support this mode
of exchange. Importantly, this method would not represent a major
change in how email is currently handled, however authentication would
become inherent with the transfer.
This seems to mix Internet mail 2000 with the consent framework. You
suggest to put the token in the link, so that the receiver's
notification agent can perform the same selection as the receiver's MTA
in my proposal. While this would be possible, goals are different and
implementations seem to be independent. It should work, from a technical
perspective. However, Internet mail 2000 already has its own deployment
issues, so mixing the two things seems to increase the deployment
difficulties, which are already high.
--
Claudio Telmon
claudio(_at_)telmon(_dot_)org
http://www.telmon.org
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