Re: New models for email (Re: e2e)

[Dave Crocker <dhc2 at dcrocker.net>]

John C Klensin wrote:
> > The only way that I see a new email infrastructure emerging is
> > as a part of a more general infrastructure to support
> > multi-modal communication, both synchronous and asynchronous,
> > bilateral and multilateral, Instant Messaging, email, voice,
> > video, network news all combined in one unified protocol. 
>
> Of course, such a protocol would have much greater odds of
> success if it was also less complex than either SMTP or SIP,
> provided absolutely reliable sender authentication and message
> integrity that typical users could fully understand and
> utilized, and also cured cancer.


Well, this thread is entirely too timely for me to pass up the opportunity of 
citing:

"Is It Time to Replace SMTP?"

   tiny: <http://tinyurl.com/35m64e>
   full: 
<http://www.cisco.com/web/about/ac123/ac147/archived_issues/ipj_10-2/102_smtp.html>

In the current issue of IPJ.

d/
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  Dave Crocker
  Brandenburg InternetWorking
  bbiw.net

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