[77064] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [eweek article] Window of "anonymity" when domain exists, whois not updated yet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Niels Bakker)
Wed Jan 12 12:24:30 2005
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 18:23:58 +0100
From: Niels Bakker <niels=nanog@bakker.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Mail-Followup-To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <OF3AE11260.E60D0D6E-ON80256F87.0058B4E1-80256F87.0058F62E@radianz.com>
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>> Right now I have freedom of communication. In your vision I would hand
>> all that over to my ISP for the benefit of giving complete control over
>> who can communicate with me to them.
> Perhaps you could explain to me just how you
> currently manage to get port 25 packets delivered
> to your friends without transitting your ISP?
> Or did you just mean "freedom of communication"
> in a rhetorical sense?
Because it's not hitting the disks in their mail spool, nor are the
sender and receiver checked against any policy databases.
> And if you will trust an ISP to deliver port 25
> packets then why wouldn't you trust them to
> deliver email messages?
Because the packets are an order of magnitude easier to do than e-mail,
and the orders only keep rising when the number of subscriber rises.
IP service is ubiquitous, your proposal would make an important service
running on top of it not anymore.
-- Niels.
--
The idle mind is the devil's playground
