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>The result is that the one org willing to take financial responsibility,
>i.e. Microsoft, can get away with something as crufty as Passport.
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There's a huge pot of gold for someone who starts this off.
Sadly it's going to take a world player to force it.

Someone with a big set of electronic customers needs to say :
"we will no longer accept SMTP mail"


The Register has this recent [scare] story :

The Internet Research Task Force's (IRTF) quest for an
effective solution to spam has struck gold in the form of
IT specialist Mark McCarron.



http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/31638.html