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

[Yakov Shafranovich <research@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark Baugher wrote:
> Yakov,
>
> At 02:39 PM 3/31/2004, Yakov Shafranovich wrote:
> <...>
>
> > 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.

I just went over the charter 
(http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/ietf-announce-old/Current/msg29232.html). 
 We are seeking a mechanism to specify that an MTA is authorized to 
relay email for a given network. I'll forget the "trust" word :)

Yakov