Re: [Asrg] 6. Proposals - Legal - Subject labelling (?)

["Jon Kyme" <jrk@merseymail.com>]

> 
> First of all, the primary responsibility for drafting this is on the 
> FTC, not on the IETF. 

Well, yes, and no. Clearly, your FTC have to address "CANSPAM". Coming up
with mechanisms for message labelling is for any interested party

> The requirement is that is must be compatible with 
> IETF standards, not that the IETF has to write standards for this. The 
> intent seems to be on the email standards, making sure that whatever 
> labeling scheme they come up with does not interfere with IETF 
> standards. 

I don't believe there are currently any specifically relevant standards.
Given the intent you identify, this is probably a good opportunity. 


Second, the Commission has the option of making the 
> recommendations againt the plan. 
Of Course
> Third, this is the IRTF and not the 
> IETF. 

Consideration of message labelling seems to me to be well within our
charter.


> While our work "feeds" into the IETF process, this may be an 
> effort done on the IETF side. Fourth, the FTC has 18 months to do this 
> so there is plenty of time. The FTC will decide how to interact with the 
> IETF/IRTF.

18 months in which we may come up with something, survey MUAs, Filter
systems and consider making some kind of suggestion to the IETF. At the
rate things seem to go around here - that's a desperate rush :-)


> 
> Also, the FTC has a liason relationship with the ASRG, and I contacted 
> our contacts there to clarify the situation. I do not see at the current 
> point an immediate need to make up a standard. While this would be nice 
> to have anyway, the bill has not even been signed into law yet, so there 
> is no rush.

It's never going to be law for most of the world, that's not really the
point. It's just recently become a hotter topic than hitherto.


Regards,
JK




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