The perils of federated protocols

Posted May 20, 2016 8:36 UTC (Fri) by paulj (subscriber, #341)
In reply to: The perils of federated protocols by khim
Parent article: The perils of federated protocols

IPv6 was slow to be rolled out not because of federation, but because of second-system-syndrome effects that led IPv6 designers to ignore backward compatibility.

SMTP hasn't developed much because it's very mature, and basically does what's needed. The maturity of SMTP hasn't stopped development at higher layers above SMTP. Also, if you want to blame SMTP for identity and abuse issues, no one has solved those any better in any other protocol that couldn't also be applied to SMTP. SMTP is actually wildly successful, because it is "federated", distributed and decentralised.

The perils of federated protocols

Posted May 29, 2016 23:47 UTC (Sun) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129) [Link] (2 responses)

So how come I *never* get any spam on WhatsApp and dozens to hundreds of spam emails every day?

The perils of federated protocols

Posted May 30, 2016 1:17 UTC (Mon) by Fowl (subscriber, #65667) [Link]

WhatsApp spam exists. (I've received it)

The perils of federated protocols

Posted Feb 6, 2019 9:18 UTC (Wed) by jond (subscriber, #37669) [Link]

Is that figure the spam you receive after filtering, or before?