Chris wrote:
The question is how is going to help stem spam. That needs to be answered before going into minute details of implementation.this is a research group. we should research and then make recommendationsThis is an engineering workgroup, not a fantasy land workgroup. The scope is control of spam. Any protocol changes have to be feasible. BEFORE you propose throwing out SMTP you have to explain exactly what is wrong with it and the reason why incremental change is not possible.Please re read my original post I do not intend to throw out SMTP they are your words pull *IS* smtp with two extra steps outgoing request and incoming accept/deny both can use the current infrastructure UNCHANGED