Re: Why we should choose the RFC2821 MAIL FROM/HELO identities

[Mark Baugher <mbaugher@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yakov,

At 02:39 PM 3/31/2004, Yakov Shafranovich wrote:
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> The basic problem is here is lack of trust. All of these mechanisms are 
> trying to establish whether a given MTA is to be trusted more. Therefore, 
> it seems to me that the feature we are seeking to add to email is a way to 
> exchange trust information.

I don't understand the proposed charter in this way.  I understand this 
group's goal to be developing mechanisms to establish whether an MTA is 
authorized to forward a message.  Frankly, "trust information" doesn't mean 
anything to me; I think it could mean a lot of different things to 
different people.

Mark



> Yakov