The Internet is a place that everyone should be allowed to use right?
Well isn't the Internet based on a resource that has to be centrally assigned??
I'm talking about IP addresses(and AS#)
"Users" of IP addresses are required to register for their IPs from Regional Internet Registries(RIR) i.e. RIPE/ARIN/APNIC/LACNIC etc...
<make-things-look-simple>
Strictly speaking, there is nothing that technically stops a "user" from using any IP address. If you talk BGP to your ISP, well, you could technically pick up a free IP range and say it is yours, and the routers on the net will believe it. </make-things-look-simple>
now lets get to the point! If e-mail has become so unusable as it is being claimed(don't get me wrong, I'm fed up myself with spam!), there is a simple solution:
All ISPs would be required to regiser authorised mail servers with the RIR(being it via some kind of whois, or using a DNSBL or rather DNS allow list)
Obviously the mail servers should use authentication etc.
this doesn't require anything new technically,
and servers listed would be a little more trusted. Administrators/users would than have the option to accept mail from anywhere, or accept only those "trusted"
miss use of the mail servers would then remove them from this list
ok 1 question to be answered, who defines what is misuse??!
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The Internet is a place that everyone should be allowed to use right?
Well isn't the Internet based on a resource that has to be centrally assigned?? I'm talking about IP addresses(and AS#)
"Users" of IP addresses are required to register for their IPs from Regional Internet Registries(RIR) i.e. RIPE/ARIN/APNIC/LACNIC etc ...
<make-things-look-simple>
Strictly speaking, there is nothing that technically stops a "user" from using any IP address.
If you talk BGP to your ISP, well, you could technically pick up a free IP range and say it is yours, and the routers on the net will believe it.
</make-things-look-simple>
now lets get to the point! If e-mail has become so unusable as it is being claimed(don't get me wrong, I'm fed up myself with spam!), there is a simple solution:
All ISPs would be required to regiser authorised mail servers with the RIR(being it via some kind of whois, or using a DNSBL or rather DNS allow list) Obviously the mail servers should use authentication etc.
this doesn't require anything new technically, and servers listed would be a little more trusted. Administrators/users would than have the option to accept mail from anywhere, or accept only those "trusted"
miss use of the mail servers would then remove them from this list
ok 1 question to be answered, who defines what is misuse??!
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