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Developing an alternative email infrastructure trust model
From: Dave Crocker <dhc2 () dcrocker net>
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 09:22:10 -0800
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 10:30:21 +0000, Michael.Dillon () radianz com wrote:
I am suggesting that we apply the lessons learned from the BGP peering model.
When a diverse community uses an infrastructure service, it needs some basis for trusting the activity of that service. The nature and degree of trust depends on the nature of the service, of course, but there always are limits to the types and amount of misbehaviors that can be tolerated, beyond which the serviced is rendered useless. The global telecommunications and postal infrastructures have been based on country government authorization and oversight, with a combination of inter-country treaties and inter-provider contracts specifying formal requirements. The modern Internet uses an entirely different trust model, since most service providers operate strictly through market forces, rather than having any government oversight. Anyone can play. So we have no reliable way to assess trust of the overall service, because it has no separate identity. That means assessing each service participant individually. That's a textbook example of a scheme that does not scale. What is missing, then, are two things: 1. Specification of acceptable practises, so there can be a shared view of "good email provider"; and 2. A processes which assesses performance according to those practises. Both of these require a community to form, develop the specification, and assess conformance to its requirements. There are informal examples of such communities already operating. The challenge is to develop something that scales. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking +1.408.246.8253 dcrocker a t ... WE'VE MOVED to: www.bbiw.net
Current thread:
- Re: Internet Email Services Association, (continued)
- 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)