Re: [Asrg] Consent Proposal

At 09:53 PM 6/26/2003 -0600, Selby Hatch wrote:

>Yakov Shafranovich wrote:
>>The charter goes on and on about consent, however aside from Gordon's 
>>HTML blocking thread, there has been no discussion of that. If discussion 
>>of consent is premature at the moment, what should we be looking at right 
>>now? In general, what directions should the group be pursuing at the 
>>moment? As it appears rights now, there are mainly various discussions 
>>about everything under the sun, but no concrete sense of direction at all.
>>Yakov
>
>How can you say that? The entire proposal that I submitted
>was completely and totally about consent and authentication.
>I understand that it may not be painless to implement, but I
>have read no proposal here that would be both effective and
>painless.
>[..]
>
>Spam elimination by mailbox lock and key (or token) and by
>sender authentication
>[..]

The main crux of the proposal is that the sender and receiver share a key 
which expresses agreement to exchange email - i.e. consent. The key is a 
consent token.

My problem is that this is a specific implementation or way to build 
consent systems. We should strive to define a general consent framework 
into which proposals such as this will fit.

Yakov  

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