On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 06:52:02AM -0500, Carlos Vera wrote:
> well there should be one way. What about electronic signature?
You should be aware that the message from "Jeff Williams" is actually
from me -- If you examine the headers of the mail message it states
quite plainly that it is from "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". The crude forgery
(anyone can change the "From: " header on an email) was sent partly as a
joke, and partly as an example to remind us that "identity" on the
Internet should not be taken for granted. [*]
I don't know if Bill (if it was really Bill) was joking or not, but it
is clearly absurd to accuse ICANN of "padding" an unverified (and
unverifiable) attendence list -- the list has no formal value for good
or ill, and is just presented as is for informational purposes, as a
courtesy to participants. Besides, I haven't noticed any press releases
from ICANN saying "Look everybody, we are OK: Bill Lovell engaged in
electronic participation with us."
As to your comment about electronic signatures: yes, there are
techniques that could be used to better identify people. However:
1) deploying those techniques has a cost; 2) they are not easy for
people to use; 3) it is not clear that there *should* be any
identification requirements -- this is supposed to be open to general
public participation from anyone who can connect to the Internet.
[*]
For those whose mail readers may not give them easy access to the
headers, here are the headers of the message I sent as "Jeff Williams".
Also, there may be some people who are not aware that "Jeff Williams" is
a fabricated persona managed by a person or persons unknown. The fact
that the persona is fabricated has been established beyond a reasonable
doubt -- the internal inconsistencies alone are sufficient proof.
The headers:
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Jun 18 00:59:05 2000
> Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Received: from ns1.vrx.net (ns1.vrx.net [204.138.71.254])
> by songbird.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id AAA28846
> for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sun, 18 Jun 2000 00:59:04 -0700
> Received: by ns1.vrx.net (Postfix)
> id 33EF0F045; Sun, 18 Jun 2000 03:58:59 -0400 (EDT)
> Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Received: by ns1.vrx.net (Postfix, from userid 1074)
> id C721BF100; Sun, 18 Jun 2000 03:58:57 -0400 (EDT)
> Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Received: from songbird.com (songbird.com [206.14.4.2])
> by ns1.vrx.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C366F045
> for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sun, 18 Jun 2000 03:58:54 -0400 (EDT)
> Received: (from kent@localhost)
> by songbird.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id AAA28838
> for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Sun, 18 Jun 2000 00:58:49 -0700
> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
--
Kent Crispin "Do good, and you'll be
[EMAIL PROTECTED] lonesome." -- Mark Twain
