>I hope the charter, unlike the previous one, will require the >development of a protocol for communicating email sender reputation >that can be implemented in email products without known patent >encumbrances that are incompatible with open source software. Email >is simply too important to allow otherwise. Not to belabor the totally painfully obvious, but DNSBLs are a protocol for communicating email sender reputation that are implemented in open source software without patent encumbrances and have been for a deacade. What would be the point of yet another WG to reinvent this wheel? R's, John _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf