[122816] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Brockway)
Mon Feb 22 11:21:02 2010
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:24:54 +0000 (UTC)
From: Robert Brockway <robert@timetraveller.org>
To: NANOG Operators Group <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <6104c3e31002220808v3fca8a0bp56a58513e9dfbc2c@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 22 Feb 2010, James Jones wrote:
> Why does this seem like a really bad idea?
While I think the principal is noble there are operational problems:
1) Large and increasing quantity of email will be forwarded between
Israeli ISPs, loading their networks with traffic that could have been
avoided.
2) Every time someone changes ISP and wants to continue using this address
they will need to notify their original ISP, who they may not have had a
business relationship with for many years. This will be a significant
operational challenge I expect. How do you confirm the person notifying
you is the real owner of the address, for example?
IMHO it would have been better to require the ISPs to forward the email
for a reasonable period of time (say 3 months) to allow the user to make
relevant notifications (or just stop using an ISP bound email address).
Unfortunately the links cited are in Hebrew so I'm only going on Gadi's
report here.
Cheers,
Rob
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