SIQ Protocol - Gadi's format

1. Please re-post your protocol.. a link would be good.

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-irtf-asrg-iar-howe-siq-00.txt

2. Can you summarize (very very shortly) what it is about, and have us
argue about it mindlessly, conceptually, before reading?

UDP Query, pre-DATA in an inbound email server, a domain and an IP

sent to a "reputation" server - either a remote service or on your LAN

Return one (or more) scores which may be useful in determining if the
inbound email server wants to accept / reject / tempfail / add some
headers / etc

Do the above in a proper way, with error handling, exponential back-off
retries, fall back protocol, a reasonable level of anti-spoofing etc.

3. Can you provide us with some of the points you believe are
interesting, controversial, or what not?

Controversial: I personally don't like the term Reputation as to me it
signifies subjective judgements. However this is outside the scope of the
protocol discussion. I'm free to use the SIQ protocol to serve up answers
based on what I strive to position accurately as objective, reproducible
facts, rather than subjective (perhaps moral or ethical) judgements about
past behavior.

Discussion provoking: I would make up that people think there's a very
limited number of facts you can look up with the input data being only a