On May 7, 2007, at 2:15 PM, Jim Whitehead wrote:
* So, I walk out of my house, turn on my cell phone, and I'm immediately hit with event-driven porn spam?
That could happen. Thankfully, a significant percentage of everyone involved is demanding a strong digital signature framework to be de facto mandatory, something which I personally strongly support. It is optional, but there are enough people lucid enough to not want to re- invent SMTP poorly who are willing to argue that case that it will probably minimize spam opportunities in implementation. What that looks like in practice is hard to say, but I think digital signatures will be standard fare for mandatory feeds. However, that does not prevent upstream digital signature folks like the telcos from whoring their certs and channel to anyone with cash. It is very desirable advertising real estate. This is being implemented in most countries by regulatory fiat. To the extent that I have influence on the process, I have been a strong advocate of a useful digital signature framework for ascertaining source authority (and filterinig on that basis) at a minimum, and potentially much stricter profiles. We'll see what it really looks like in five or ten years. The people that want no cryptographic controls at all ("because it is simple") are in the minority. Cheers, J. Andrew Rogers _______________________________________________ FoRK mailing list http://xent.com/mailman/listinfo/fork ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE