Lazy network operators

Wed Apr 14 16:06:23 UTC 2004

On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 Michael.Dillon at radianz.com wrote:

> 
> >Paul, let me add one more to your list: As a community, we have
> >been too lazy to take hold of the architectural source of the
> >problem, which is the complete lack of accountability over the
> >ability to post email.
> 
> Hear, hear.
> 
> >Of course, this breaks the end-to-end model of the Internet...
> >Too bad.  End-to-end makes sense in some contexts, and it doesn't
> >in others.   This is the latter case.
> 
> John, I don't believe that it is necessary to break the
> end-to-end model of the Internet in order to implement
> accountability for posting email. Rather than filtering
> port 25 at the user ISP, every ISP who operates an 
> SMTP server could simply get off their butt and stop
> accepting connections from anyone that they don't know.
> In the case of a user ISP, they know all their own
> customers. And they should know a significant number
> of their email peers. If people can make arrangments 
> for NNTP peering or BGP peering rather than opening
> it to all comers, why can't we do the same for SMTP?
> Pure laziness and lack of vision, IMHO.

A lack of desire to further commercialize something we all pay for 
already? after smtp peering comes smtp de-peering, settlement based smtp 
exchange and smtp transit, etc.

> Michael Dillon
> 
> 

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