> Moreover, in the public policy debate that is going on now, policy makers > need to know what technical options are avaiable as they look at the > spectrum > of possible solutions (legal, technical, etc). The IETF has a role to play > there, too. Absolutely. We need to get something like RFC1984. As bad as spam is, a lot of the countermeasures have a significant cost. It is probably necessarily so, as making e-mail easy to send also makes spam easy to send, but different measures have different side effects, and that is worth documenting. -- Christian Huitema