Re: IP-based reputation services vs. DNSBL (long)

[John Levine <johnl at iecc.com>]

>I hope the charter, unlike the previous one, will require the
>development of a protocol for communicating email sender reputation
>that can be implemented in email products without known patent
>encumbrances that are incompatible with open source software. Email
>is simply too important to allow otherwise.

Not to belabor the totally painfully obvious, but DNSBLs are a
protocol for communicating email sender reputation that are
implemented in open source software without patent encumbrances and
have been for a deacade.

What would be the point of yet another WG to reinvent this wheel?

R's,
John
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