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Re: Why are we here? What are our goals?

2004-01-30 09:55:47

On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 00:52:38 -0500 
Hector Santos <winserver(_dot_)support(_at_)winserver(_dot_)com> wrote:

Sorry, both concepts are unacceptable by me for any new design.  If
you want to have a primitive protocol with one command "DATA" or break
it into two, HEAD and BODY commands, great! Propose it!  I have less
of a problem with that. But that HEAD must all the TRUSTED
relationship and network tracing concepts we must deal with.

If we assume a discrete HEAD/DATA distinction at the transport protocol
level, with a HEAD definition that supports a cheaply determined binary
quality: auditable/unauditable (for its audits we're really talking
about rather than traceability) then you both get what you want: Hector
gets the technical ability to (cheaply) refuse all email that has an
unauditable HEAD and to then deal with his auditable mail as he wishes,
and Len has the technical ability to choose which types of
auditable/unauditable email he accepts.  Of course such an approach
requires auditable binding of HEAD data to DATA contents, but that is
tractable.

Hector: Would you have a problem with such an approach, and if so, why?

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