[51173] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at smtpng.org
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Wed Aug 21 17:26:01 2002
From: "Petri Helenius" <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: "Robert Blayzor" <rblayzor@inoc.net>,
"'Mark Segal'" <MSegal@FUTUREWAY.CA>, <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 00:02:24 +0300
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>
> Treat them sort of like SSL certs now. Charge an annual registrar fee
> per company, not per server. (Something like $100 a year) The more they
> have to go out of their way to get their spam server online, the more
> they would be deterred to do so. They're only going to want to change
> so many ISP's, go through SWIP and then change their legal name for the
> registrar so many times.
>
Why donīt you just start using SSL certs with SMTP ? The protocol is there,
ways to get certificates are there, no need to start smoothing a square
piece
to make a new wheel.
Pete
