[WSIS CS-Plenary] Spam as an issue

Robert Guerra rguerra at lists.privaterra.org
Wed Feb 2 13:33:35 GMT 2005


I haven't followed the IETF meetings - could you enlighten us on what 
happened at the Madrid meeting?


regards

Robert
At 2:27 PM +0900 2/2/05, Chun Eung Hwi wrote:
>
>Meanwhile, I want to note again the importance of global standardization
>regime here because the breakdown of IETF Marid WG seems to be one very
>significant and disappointing sign. Of course, I don't believe the
>technical solution could be the only best answer or that mail
>authentification could solve most of problems, but it is also true that
>such a technical standardization is necessarily needed for more effective
>counter-measure.  Since the failure of the WG, I am afraid that again Big
>global corporations would sweep over global email market in their market
>forces. Already, some big players like Microsft have occupied most large
>share of email client market. Then, how market could solve this problem is
>very suspicious particularly given the network externality. At the moment,
>I don't know how to restore the attempt of email authentification
>standardization, but such concern need to be noted. And personally, I am
>very concerned with what open source or free software movement are
>thinking on spam after Marid.
>

-- 
###
Robert Guerra <rguerra at privaterra.org>
Privaterra - <http://www.privaterra.org>



More information about the Plenary mailing list