Re: Email Web of Trust - Problem Statement

Mark Baugher wrote:

> Your explanation seems to roughly correspond with John Levine's web 
> page.  I have a few more questions.
> 
> 1. Has the group considered supporting a common policy as a basis for 
> the web?  Otherwise, there needs to be some language to represent a 
> particular member's policy.  Member A rates mail according to criteria 
> x, y, z while Member B uses v, w, x.  This seems intractable to me.  I 
> can almost hear the argument that it would be too difficult to define 
> such a common policy, but any entity that rates mail is implementing a 
> policy.  There might be multiple webs based on distinct policies for 
> characterizing mail.

There has been a proposal along the lines of this:

https://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/working-groups/asrg/current/msg09253.html

Yakov