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Re: [Asrg] request for review for a non FUSSP proposal

2009-06-24 04:32:44
Claudio Telmon wrote:
John Levine wrote:

...

It could turn down to a private network in some cases, but in general
people would still be able to contact each other. But if you mean that
anybody should be able send messages to whoever he wants, and expect
that they are accepted unless they are collectively classified as
"spam", whatever this means (vs. being considered undesired by the
receiver), or sent by a misbehaved agent, this is not what I want. My
guess is exactly this, that a lot of people don't want it either, and
would appreciate to be able to use the current tools and protocols with
some control on correspondents. Cell phones are not a private network,
and people like to have (some of) this control.

There are some very big philosophic differences between "cell phones networks" and internet. Among them, internet is a "freedom space". And that's the main reason why spam is a difficult problem to solve.

You're right when you say that sometimes some people may want to use internet as a private network. But this is contrary to internet philosophy.

IMHO, there are little chance to see new standards allowing/enabling using internet as a private network. But if people want to do it, the best way isn't to set up a new standard, but just creating a proprietary and closed protocol to set up his private network. No need to publish it, nor to create a RFC about it, just set it up with your friends.

A good example of consent is Donald Knuth. He has a web page explaining how to contact him. It's simple and efficient, and doesn't require any new standard to continue working.

  http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html

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