"transactional" report type (was Re: [feedback-report] New version of the ARF draft)

[John Levine]

>Sure, I am just asking that a method be in place that would allow for
>the ~possibility~ that if  an ISP does do transactional tracking, that
>it can be labeled as such.

Hmmn.  How many ISPs do this now?  What incentive do they, as
receivers, have to start doing it in the future?

The point of ARF is to communicate the fact that a recipient had an
opinion about a message.  That's all you get.  Sure, you'd like ISPs
to do more work for you, but it ain't gonna happen.

As Steve A. pointed out, if you want it badly enough you can pay them
to do it, but if you pay them, you can make any kind of bilateral
arrangements you want, and that's outside the scope of a standard
intended for the public Internet.

R's,
John