RE: list of user-visible goals

Arnt, you and Hadmut could be right about this. Perhaps the requirement
is that the medium is secure, reliable, trustworthy etc.

However I wonder if there may be a need for security grades of sorts to
create the level of trust necessary for "email" to be used as a message
system for secure financial transactions - I wouldn't like to use sight
of that purpose for email in defining requirements.

Ian Peter

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
On
> Behalf Of Arnt Gulbrandsen
> Sent: Friday, 6 February 2004 8:07 PM
> To: Ian Peter
> Cc: Hadmut Danisch; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: list of user-visible goals
> 
> 
> Ian Peter writes about payment via email:
> > I think it needs to be addressed by the "email" mechanism, because
if
> > the medium is unsecure, unreliable, untrustworthy, can make false
> > address claims, or be redirected to somewhere I don't intend it to
go
> > (to give a few examples) email cannot be readily used for secure
> > purposes.
> 
> Right. But there's nothing special about that particular purpose, is
> there? All of these four would seem to be equivalent wrt. your
> paragraph:
> 
>   - writing a love letter to someone other than my wife
>   - applying from a new job using my current employer's email system
>   - sending a contract to be printed, signed and returned
>   - paying powells.com for a couple of books
> 
> Arnt