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Re: Internet Email Services Association ( wasRE: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587?)
From: Todd Vierling <tv () duh org>
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 13:14:07 -0500 (EST)
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 Michael.Dillon () radianz com wrote:
I'm skeptical that a model that only sort of works for under 30K ASNs and maybe 1K bilateral peering agreements for the *really* big Tier-1s won't scale to a world that has 40M+ .com domains and probably a million SMTP servers.Well the way that I see this scaling is that you have a core of email service providers who are members of the Internet Mail Services Association.
The business world simply doesn't work that way. Ever heard of the phrase "Standards are great -- there's so many of them to choose from!"?
These core operators sign up to a multilateral mail peering agreement and provide email transit services for other operators. The next layer is the non-core email service providers who have bilateral mail peering agreements with one or more core email transport providers.
Contrary to what you said before, this *IS* the UUCP model in a nutshell. It has been done before, it does not scale, and it does not fit the way business works today. -- -- Todd Vierling <tv () duh org> <tv () pobox com>
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- Re: Internet Email Services Association ( wasRE: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587?) Kee Hinckley (Feb 28)
- Re: Internet Email Services Association Douglas Otis (Feb 28)
- Re: Internet Email Services Association ( wasRE: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587?) Michael . Dillon (Mar 01)
- Re: Internet Email Services Association ( wasRE: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587?) Valdis . Kletnieks (Mar 01)
- Re: Internet Email Services Association ( wasRE: Why do so few mail providers su Stephane Bortzmeyer (Mar 01)
- Re: Internet Email Services Association ( wasRE: Why do so few mail providers su Suresh Ramasubramanian (Mar 01)
- Re: Internet Email Services Association ( wasRE: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587?) Michael . Dillon (Mar 01)
- Re: Internet Email Services Association Chris Edwards (Mar 01)
- Re: Internet Email Services Association Michael . Dillon (Mar 01)
- Re: Internet Email Services Association ( wasRE: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587?) Valdis . Kletnieks (Mar 01)
- Re: Internet Email Services Association ( wasRE: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587?) Todd Vierling (Mar 01)
- Re: Internet Email Services Association Niels Bakker (Mar 02)