Re: Agenda, security, and monitoring

> From: Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com>
> The part that you don't state by name but imply is 'what is the business
> model'. We are talking about a multi-million dollar change to the email
> infrastructure. That is only justified if we can show a multi-billion
> dollar return on the investment.
>
> I think that there is such a return. If my bank, my doctor, my brokerage
> can send mail and be assured that the transport is confidential end to end,
> they can use email in more ways. SSL made Web commerce possible and added
> roughly five trillion dollars to global GDP according to one estimate.
> Email security can make Internet commerce better and simpler and sustain
> that growth. Even if the additional benefits from making the other Internet
> killer application secure are 1% of the Web benefits, that is a lot of
> potential.
Unfortunately, "my bank, my doctor, my brokerage" have all implemented
confidential email, but they are horrible webmail systems.  That means
that a considerable amount of the benefit that will be obtainable from
confidential email is already being obtained, making it harder for
proper confidential email to gain acceptance in the market.

Dale