Re: Authorship

Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Fri, 4 Apr 2025 12:31:57 -0400

    Salz, Rich wrote:

          I
              don’t think it’s a good use of IETF resources to provide
              email accounts for over a thousand people.

    I'm thinking that IPNS & IPFS make for a good platform for
    universal id & mailboxes.  Add to that a blockchain &
    certification service - to allow binding legal & financial
    identities to specific self-published identities - then we can just
    each publish a "shingle" to IPFS space, and an IPNS record that
    points to a maildrop file.

    Then all we need are SMTP clients that can read & write to IPFS
    files.

    Just a thought.

    Miles

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