Re: Authorization

On Fri, 2004/10/22 (MDT), <[email protected]> wrote:

> When we began this work, I thought that the per account customization
> for HTTP was very important, but not worth screaming about.  In the
> intervening years HTTP has become more important to daily life, and I
> think the issue is as important as for SMTP.  I would really like to
> see some ideas on how to get this specified and set into standards
> as we move forward with SMTP.

I think this plays well with P rules or similar standard to express  
filtering rules.
Most ISPs cannot offer rich customizations today because they would have  
to invest in a custom interface to support/maintain those customizations.  
If we give the world a common filtering language, the ISP can buy an  
off-the-shelf rules management tool and have users specify their  
preferences on the web (auto-converted to [P] rules that ISP's servers  
understand).

Alex.