[61441] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fun new policy at AOL
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dr. Jeffrey Race)
Thu Aug 28 18:55:15 2003
From: "Dr. Jeffrey Race" <jrace@attglobal.net>
To: "John Palmer" <nanog@adns.net>,
"Matthew Crocker" <matthew@crocker.com>
Cc: "nanog list" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 05:54:16 +0700
Reply-To: "Dr. Jeffrey Race" <jrace@attglobal.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 12:07:30 -0400, Matthew Crocker wrote:
>It can be built without choke points. ISPs could form trust
>relationships with each other and bypass the central mail relay. AOL
>for example could require ISPs to meet certain criteria before they are
>allowed direct connections. ISPs would need to contact AOL, provide
>valid contact into and accept some sort of AUP (I shall not spam
>AOL...) and then be allowed to connect from their IPs. AOL could kick
>that mail server off later if they determine they are spamming.
Now there is an idea! However an improved variant is to make the
entire internet a 'trust relationship' using the (obvious) steps you
propose. For several months I have been pondering possible details of
implementing same; see <http://www.camblab.com/misc/univ_std.txt>.
Comments welcome.
Jeffrey Race
