[51217] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at smtpng.org
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Israel)
Wed Aug 21 20:23:39 2002
From: Dave Israel <davei@algx.net>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 20:18:05 -0400
To: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
Cc: Robert Blayzor <rblayzor@inoc.net>,
"'Mark Segal'" <MSegal@FUTUREWAY.CA>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: Re: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at smtpng.org (Petri Helenius)
Reply-To: davei@algx.net
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
The problem with SSL is it doesn't include certificate chain to
arbitrary authorities. However, there's a space for web of trust in
SSL, I believe, so yeah, a new verison of SSL might be just the ticket.=
On 8/22/2002 at 00:02:24 +0300, Petri Helenius said:
>=20
> >
> > 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 mo=
re
> > they would be deterred to do so. They're only going to want to cha=
nge
> > so many ISP's, go through SWIP and then change their legal name for=
the
> > registrar so many times.
> >
> Why don=B4t you just start using SSL certs with SMTP ? The protocol i=
s there,
> ways to get certificates are there, no need to start smoothing a squa=
re
> piece
> to make a new wheel.
>=20
> Pete
>=20
>=20
