[170347] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Levine)
Wed Mar 26 13:58:57 2014
Date: 26 Mar 2014 17:42:59 -0000
From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <53330DCB.7050607@pari.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
>And I also remember thinking at the time that you missed one very
>important angle, and that is that the typical ISP has the technical
>capability to bill based on volume of traffic already, and could easily
>bill per-byte for any traffic with 'e-mail properties' like being on
>certain ports or having certain characteristics. Yeah, I'm well aware
>of the technical issues with that; I never said it was a good idea, but
>what is the alternative?
Where do you expect them to send the bill?
R's,
John
PS: The alternative is to deal directly with spam issues, rather than
replacing them with even worse e-postage issues. One of the things I
pointed out in that white paper is that as soon as you have real money
involved, you're going to have a whole new set of frauds and scams that
are likely to be worse than the ones you thought you were solving.
