Re: Email Web of Trust - Problem Statement

Mark Baugher wrote:

> At 02:02 PM 3/10/2004, Alan DeKok wrote:
> 
>> Mark Baugher <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > So is the member of the web of trust like a maven, who passes 
>> judgement on
>> > the goodness of a domain based on its own idiosyncratic evaluation 
>> of that
>> > particular domain?
>>
>>   Yup.  We cannot realistically expect anything else.
> 
> 
> How about a MIB definition:  Let's say the peers who make up the "web of 
> trust"
> run the same protocol for authorizing incoming mail.  The protocol, 
> whatever
> it is, has counters for messages that are received but rejected as junk,
> along with the address or name associated with the source.  The peers trust
> each other to maintain these counters according to the MIB specification.
> 

I had been thinking along similar lines. What I had in mind is a web of 
reputation system which is extensible via something like the MIB 
mechanism AND a base MIB-like RFC defining neutral data points such as 
length of time MTA is transmitting, average volume, etc. This way 
everyone can use the base neutral data points and extend the web to 
include other things they might be interested in.

As a side note, I am not a big expert in SNMP but in theory can it be 
used to provide information about MTAs?

Yakov