[acm-tf] Definitions of FBL and global reporting, was Poster

On 13/Apr/11 14:42, Tobias Knecht wrote:
>>> Or is your definition of a feedbackloop just reporting abusive
>>> behavior back to its source?
>> 
>> Yeah, sort of.  I never saw a formal definition, but IMHO it should
>> provide for reaching the original source --the author-- of a reported
>> message, in some cases.
> 
> Ah okay, than I got it. I was just to deep into my jargon that I didn't
> get it.

My bad.  There is a clear definition of FBL in [MLM]:

   A Feedback Loop (FBL) is a bi-lateral agreement between two parties
   to exchange reports of abuse.  Typically, a sender registers with a
   receiving site to receive abuse reports from that site for mail
   coming from the sender.

A more convoluted definition can be found in [FBL].  They both agree
with the way you understood my misuse of that term.

Then, there is that discovering draft [FRD], that interestingly uses
the word feedback to coin a bunch of terms, like "feedback reporting
advertisement".

While I like the concept of global reporting, I personally don't like
the term itself very much.  It seems to me that, as it contains
neither the word "abuse" nor "feedback", it doesn't unambiguously
refer to the activity it means, and is too generic.  [GRI] uses the
same term.

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[MLM] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-dkim-mailinglists
[FBL] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-jdfalk-maawg-cfblbcp
[FRD] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-marf-reporting-discovery
[GRI] http://www.globalreporting.org/