Alain Durand wrote: > I tend to agree with Dave Crocker, getting 100+ millions > users to upgrade to SMTPng is not going to be any easier than > getting them to move to IPv6... It will also suffer from the > second design syndrome. I will not fool myself and believe it > can happen overnight....
In this case, I disagree. Yes SMTP will have to exist for some time to come, but it wouldn't take much to convince people that moving to a new mail system would either reduce spam, or had adequate mechanisms for financial recourse. If the courts routinely granted judgments to individuals of 100 $/euro for every received unsolicited message, people would jump at the chance to run the new mail tool, and spam as we know it would loose its economic viability. Making that work means absolute traceability of the message origin. > For this effort to be effective, I think it will have to be > done in a way that is at odds with the traditional IETF thinking: > > 1) Compatibility with SMTP is not desirable > 2) Some form of privacy is not desirable > 3) To much scalability is not desirable I agree, with the condition that scalability should be a factor everywhere except the originator. Tony
