> Il 06/12/2019 17:14 John Levine via mailop <[email protected]> ha scritto: > > The BIMI group claims senders will have to validate their logos and > get a certificate before recipient systems will display them. This > always seemed to me the weakest part of the plan. It's easy enough to > do for Paypal and a handful of big banks but not at scale since it's > essentially doing trademark examination which is neither quick nor > cheap.
This is also one of the conceptual reasons against this idea: it is, by design, a service that will only be available to a few big companies, and thus it puts everyone else (starting from smaller/local players in the same markets) at a disadvantage. This raises concerns both in antitrust terms (especially if a few big email recipients became the gatekeepers on who can or cannot get this feature, and even more if this involved the payment of fees) and in architectural terms, as trends towards consolidation and centralization of the Internet, which are fueled by protocols that are not equally accessible to everyone, are of concern to many. This is also one of the reasons why I think it is extremely unlikely that BIMI will ever be accepted as a standard by the IETF, the other one being all the security concerns that have already been mentioned in the thread. -- Vittorio Bertola | Head of Policy & Innovation, Open-Xchange [email protected] Office @ Via Treviso 12, 10144 Torino, Italy _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list [email protected] https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop
