[122837] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Sheldon)
Mon Feb 22 12:35:50 2010
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:30:15 -0600
From: Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
CC: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <c72973e61002220922r2b6ae8f8w137cf73f84d65d87@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 2/22/2010 11:22 AM, Mustafa Golam - wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon@cox.net>wrote:
>
>
>>
>> An email address that ends in example.com irrevocably ties the address
>> user to the company Example and may in fact be affirmatively harmful
>> beyond the technical difficulty of implementation.
>>
I don't think I said the following line--if I was demented enough to
have done that, I retract it.
>> IMHO, ISPs would be forged to take Google's policy of Email addresses.
>
> xyz@gmail.com for beta-users, like you and me; while xyz@google.com for
> employees. But surely it will create technical implication along with many
> others.
And I am talking about places that people that have no connection with g[.*]
The key that I missed, and we have to hope the pols did not is that
question of ownership.
I think you will see a drying up of availability of email--which has
interesting implications in the realm of unique addresses possible, for
example.
--
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take everything you have."
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