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

[Yakov Shafranovich <research@solidmatrix.com>]

Jon Kyme wrote:
> > 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 :-)
Agreed :) I just don't want people to think that this thing is becoming 
an IETF standard tomorrow :)

> > 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.
Point taken.
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SolidMatrix Technologies, Inc. / www.solidmatrix.com
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely" (Lord 
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