Authentication and Authorization are two separate and distinct
issues. TLS and Authentication have been around for quite a while, but
without centralized authorization it will never be deployed by disparate
corporations for inter-domain mail! This will not stop spam. Unless of
course you want to manage user accounts or certificates with every
single customer that you want to have conversations with. Authorization
must still be authorized by a third party agency which verifies
validity between everyone involved in communications.
LP
Best Regards,
Larry
Larry Pingree
"Visionary people, are visionary, partly because of the great many
things they never get to see." - Larry Pingree
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Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 12:14 PM
To: Larry Pingree
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Subject: Re: Unplugging spamming PCs
On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 09:11:36 PDT, Larry Pingree said:
>
> What I am proposing is have a registry that you must register
> with before other mail servers will accept mail from you. Similar to
how
> MAPS RBL works, but the mail server itself, enforces it, rather than a
> firewall or a ancillary device ACL. This could be made a standard of
> SMTP.
Yet another "it won't do any good till everybody deploys it".
http://www.rhyolite.com/anti-spam/you-might-be.html
