Folks - FIRST OFF THANKS FOR READING THIS - I want to propose a new thing here that we as technologists can provide the world with and that is a uniform method of disclosing the RIGHTS TO USE status with any Internet based service. You say what would that pertain to? The answer is that there are many protocols in use today which just assume (by the design that they make no provisions for using their services - in re the licensing and that this is a problem). This newly emerged need is VERY important in fighting delivery access and control processing. What I want to propose is that there are use licenses attached to things like DNS Name Conversions which can be used to attack the spammers of the world in courts and to also provide better protection from Internet abuse since these will pertain to routing as well. I am pretty sure this will be a somewhat unpopular idea but it is an important idea and one which really needs to happen formally whether you take this commentary from me or not. Therefore - I suggest that the IETF WG open a 'research project' to formally look into how a licensing and control protocol for disclosing licensing to end-users could be implemented and how that would be used with existing protocols including the IPv6 forward routing controls. Todd -- Todd S. Glassey This is from my personal email account and any materials from this account come with personal disclaimers. Further I OPT OUT of any and all commercial emailings. _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf