a response to Tripoli

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

He says "ePrivacy Group advocates a centralized, non-profit,
multi-constituency standards body". Sounds just like what ICANN said. How do
we insure open deliberations etc if we went this way. (don't say "trust us"
djf


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From: Ray Everett-Church <ray () eprivacygroup com>
Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 11:25:44 -0700
To: dave () farber net
Subject: RE: [IP] a response to Tripoli

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(Dave: For IP...)

> In other words, here comes Verisign again.

This is why ePrivacy Group advocates a centralized, non-profit,
multi-constituency standards body that sanctions a wider array of
certificate authorities, to get past the problems of to much centralized
authority. ePrivacy Group's proposal, called the Trusted Email Open
Standard (TEOS), was first introduced a few weeks ago at ISPCON and our
CEO, Vince Schiavone, gave a presentation on it during the
"Technical/Structural Changes to Email" panel at the FTC's Spam Forum
last week. 

The presentation, our White Paper, and supporting materials can be
viewed at http://www.eprivacygroup.net/teos. I hasten to note this is
just a proposal, a beginning point for the discussion. The Tripoli idea
has some elements that are echoes of TEOS, but also goes in some
different directions. Similarly, the "Lumos" proposal of the NAI/ESPC
has some similarities as well.

But what is unique about the TEOS proposal is that the technology to
generate/verify lightweight crypto signatures on a large scale, has
already been built and demonstrated to be highly effective by ePrivacy
Group. It is at use in our Trusted Sender program (a partnership with
TRUSTe), and recent studies of its effectiveness indicate a vast
improvement in end-user ability to differentiate spam from legitimate
email, as well as greatly improved consumer perceptions of those
entities who use the technology.

What is also unique about our proposal is that we're willing to put our
intellectual property where our mouth is: If TEOS gains support from the
key constituencies described in the White Paper, ePrivacy Group has
offered to make the technology available for general use royalty-free,
to encourage adoption of the standard.

Regards,
-Ray
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