John Leslie writes: > Michael Thomas <mat@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>>> Paul Vixie <vixie@xxxxxxx> wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>> "all communications must be by mutual consent" > >>> > > Case 1: consent is presumed until content is observed; > > >> others check caller-ID, and let an answering machine take any calls > >> they don't recognize; > > Case 2: non-consent is presumed for unauthenticated senders; Neither of these furthers the discourse since nothing prevents you from making white/black lists today. > >> still others hire a sectretary to screen their calls... > > Case 3: an external agent screens everything; This is the only case that is "new" in the sense that there isn't any standardized way to do this now. > > Well, I don't understand because it sure seems to > > me that the principle requires omniscience in > > isolation... > > No more so than the three cases listed above > (or others not listed). Like what? If the principle only leads to exactly one new thing you can develop toward, then there is no reason to be oblique. > I'm still open (for a few hours) to suggestions for re-wording; > but I'm not going to accept any re-wording that changes a principle > into an implementation plan. I'm not suggesting an implementation plan. I'm asking why this principle makes any more sense than "do unto others as you would have them do unto you". That and if it's really just a platitude that leads to a single solution, that it should be reworded to be more obvious and less platitudinal. Mike