Re: [Asrg] Email service assumptions and making system-wide changes

[Laird Breyer <laird at lbreyer.com>]

On Jan 18 2006, Barry Shein wrote:
> 
> On January 18, 2006 at 09:48 Danny_Angus at slc.co.uk (Danny Angus) wrote:
>  > 
>  > 
>  > 
>  > > So by your reasoning we shouldn't have bothered to close the open
>  > > relays?
>  > 
>  > A truly effective solution to the real problem would not *require* that
>  > open relays be closed, it would involve a transaction between the sender
>  > and the recipient, not impose a constraint on the transport layer.
>  > 
> 
> In other words, it'd find some other way to achieve the same effect of
> closing open relays.

No, I think what Danny means is that an effective solution needs to be
end-to-end (RFC1958). Only the sender and recipient should be involved, the
intervening network should only transport bits.

I'm not sure an end-to-end censorship system is possible in an accept
and forward infrastructure such as email, but maybe there's some kind
of formal proof of that statement? I don't know.

-- 
Laird Breyer.

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