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Re: Email Deliverability Summit II Update


From: "todd glassey" <todd.glassey () worldnet att net>
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 16:29:47 -0700


Dave - the problem with basic email is that is has no assured delivery
capabilities or receipt processes. These have always been its failings
relative to commercial transactional messaging and until they are resolved
there is NO hope that email will be usable for anything other than casual
messaging - and if you have any doubts see the ABA's recommendation on email
security and use.

Todd Glassey
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Crocker" <dhc () dcrocker net>
To: "Anne P. Mitchell, Esq." <amitchell () isipp com>
Cc: <nanog () nanog org>
Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 12:56 PM
Subject: Re: Email Deliverability Summit II Update



Anne,

APME> Those accomplishments include the promulgation and announcement of 5
APME> new industry standards for both email senders and receivers (this is
APME> up at http://www.isipp.com/standards.php), the presentation of
EDDB -
APME> which is a receivers/senders contact information database (it was

This is excellent work!

A question is: how best to proceed?

Email has rather complex dynamics.  As Verisign has shown us for the DNS
-- which has arguably simpler dynamics -- small changes can have big and
unexpected effects.  Usually those effects are nasty.

Consequently, I am hoping that your group intends to bring these
proposed standards to a venue that does open standards development and
adoption, to ensure that the specifications are subject to broad review
and commentary.

d/
--
 Dave Crocker <dcrocker-at-brandenburg-dot-com>
 Brandenburg InternetWorking <www.brandenburg.com>
 Sunnyvale, CA  USA <tel:+1.408.246.8253>



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