Network Working Group Pradeep Kumar Xplorer
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Intended status: Standards Track Individual
Expires: April, 18, 2019 Oct 18, 2018
Extensions to WHois service to allow query on email identities
draft-emailwhois-pradeepkumarxplorer-01
Abstract
This document describes the need for a WHois email address service
similar to the internet domainname WHois service. Theres a need for
a registered email address as opposed to non-registered email address
to fight internet SPAM, as well as encouraging email use for personal,
commercial and legal and all kinds of purposes.An internet user
can have multiple email identities.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction ............................................... 2
2. Background ..................................................2
3. General Information of the service ..........................3
4. Authors Addresses ...........................................4
5. Acknowledgements ............................................4
1. Introduction
To implement a WHois email address service similar to whois domain name
service
2. Background
Currently a user can go to a service like http://www.whois.net
and lookup a domainname.If i query explodingmoon.org It would
output WHOIS Imformation for explodingmoon.org.
There has to be a way i can type in a valid email address as well
as input to WHois service. Currently no such email directory exists.
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3. General Information of the service
A user is likely to have several email addresses that he or she
uses. A concept of primary email address can be used for the
Whois service. I am pradeep@explodingmoon.org as well as
pradeepan88@hotmail.com and pradeeplugimwidnaus@yahoo.com as well as
pradeepkumarxplorer@gmail.com.
A user should be able to register his or her email address with
WHois registry and add other details about them.
A location field of the email address can be used to
implement email security. if my email is pradeep@explodingmoon.org
and i give my location as Thailand, my email service provider can
provide me additional security by restricting access from netherlands.
There could be any level of details. Registration of email addresses
in the registry can be via email or via webforms.A user choses what
information he or she choses to reveal. I can chose to reveal my contact
information.
The current email protocols SMTP or whatever need to query sender email
address only if its valid and authorised by the email regsitry, the senders
email should be delivered. In the last 5 years i have been frauded by emails
like efcc.nigeria.org@representative.com and they have extorted cash from me
as if its legal fees to recieve funds and it has resulted in too much harm to me.
If i can configure my email client to recieve emails from those authorised
by email registry, i would not have this problem.
I propose two different applications or apps.
VerifyEvnevlope that takes as input an email header and reports if the sender of
the email is really who the header claims to be.
WHoisEmail This takes the email and shows information that can be used to identify the sender.
This can be protected by the senders password or public key. The information retrieved can
be the location, identiy documents, credentials, certificates, finger prints etc.
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4.Authors' Addresses
Pradeep Kumar Xplorer
EMail: pradeep@explodingmoon.org, pradeepan88@hotmail.com
URI: http://www.pradeepkumarxplorer.com
5.Acknowledgement
I have been a publisher of http://www.dhyanayoga.info since 2004/2005
and http://www.explodingmoon.org since 2008. I have used bluehost.com
for hosting my website and have found the need to know who views my site,
their email addresses and not just IP address. Also i have been using
services of hotmail.com, yahoo.com, facebook.com and found the need for
a Single SignON to the WWW and an email registry and a concept of
primary email address is a precursor to that implementation.
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