> >Is there an informational RFC that describes the overall email > >architecture that is provided by the various IETF protocols? Such a > > http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-crocker-email-arch-09 This is nice but a draft is not an RFC. Hopefully it will progress and can then become a starting point for a discussion about creating a more workable architecture. > See http://www.irtf.org/charter?gtype=rg&group=asrg Great. A web page last updated in 2003 and an email archive averaging 4 messages a month this year. > Bilateral agreements mean a complete change of the email > landscape. Even then, I don't see how a small provider can > afford blocking a large ESP. Now you are criticising an architecture document which does not yet exist. > Sure, we can make part of the > spam problem go away temporarily by giving up some of the > functionality email provides. Most people may be willing to > live with the restrictions until they experience the > drawbacks first-hand. I live with these drawbacks every day. But I also remember how Internet email was 15 years ago and I wonder if we can't stop the slide into obscurity and regain the features that we have lost. --Michael Dillon _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf