In article <caba8r6th5dgkknxgbzrchkhafg93ihhsanz6dmphi2vfjzb...@mail.gmail.com> you write: >I'm not sure it about the "can't scale" thing, probably the most similar is >EV certificates... without quite as much security theater. That was >certainly available to anyone with the money, looks like $1k year. Is that >too much?
Honestly, that sounds pretty close to a shakedown. Nice little Etsy store you have there, too bad if anything should happen to the receipts you mail. Were BIMI to become popular, people will assume that only commercial mail with a logo is good, and without a logo is bad, no matter how much you tell people it's voluntary and non-BIMI mail is the same as always. You surely remember when people were saying that web sites with a lock icon were good in a much stronger sense than that the site and the domain match. Or look at the ongoing .org mess and last week's NY Times op-ed by a professor at Stanford, of all places, shocked to discover that there are .org's that aren't non-profits. (Well, yeah, about 95% of them.) If you go past the tiny fraction of businesses that have registered trademarks, which also costs at least $1000, figuring out whether a logo legitimately belongs to someone is really hard. It's particularly hard at the low end where the business is likely to be a proprietorship or LLC without a lot of online records. For example, to find the registration for my IECC or Network Abuse Clearinghouse aka abuse.net, you have to visit the courthouse in Ithaca NY. I can send you a PDF of my registration, but how do you know it's real? How do you even know what a New York DBA form is supposed to look like? I'm not saying this is impossible, but it's hard and not cheap. If there isn't a plausible path for small mailers, it's hard to see how it's not an anti-competitive big boys' club. R's, John _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop
