*[1] Free eMail service provider with limited free storage*
What we need is a non-US free-eMail hosting service, to attract users
and potentially supplant Gmail, such that it would as a SPOC
(Single-Point of Contact) for unsophisticated "anonymizing" of message
origin, such that this "public-facing" account protects the individual's
privacy by separating their "non-critical" online interactions from
those that are critical and identity-dependant by association with our
preferred ISPs.
That service would need to offer associated free storage for a limited
amount of data for what I would call transient/passthru emails, of the
order of 50 MByte to 200 MByte (rough guess).
*[2] There needs to be a Canada-sited and controlled public (encryption)
key registry*
As for everything about critical infrastructure, such a Canadian-based
(segregated and controlled by Fed Gov ???) registry is necessary to
ensure that if the national borders become data "firewalls", there needs
to be guaranteed access to the identifiers used for encryption to ensure
business and national operational continuity.
*[3] There needs to be a Canada-sited and controlled comprehensive DNS
server*
DNS servers are a lynchpin critical point of failure for today's
internet. We need to ensure that such a critical piece of the national
networking backbone is both sited in Canada and controlled by Canada. I
would go so far as to suggest that it might be appropriate to establish
a fully comprehensive DNS hosting service in each Province, thereby
ensuring capacity and thruput to the level that is supported by each
Province's economic development departments.
*[4] Backbone is only backbone, not a gateway*
The national network backbone *must not be* a chain of serial gateways.
The national backbone must be fully cross-nation in such a way as to
ensure data flow across provinces without dependency on
province-controlled assets. I visualize Provincial "concentrators"
accessing National "taps", thereby ensuring breakdowns are
single-instance failure-points non-impacting to the rest of the nation.
As with good planning redundency is a key continuity factor. The
backbone should involve dual cross-nation transport channels, which are
not co-located (i.e. at least 50 km to 100 km distant from each other,
with no exception regarding the Provincial concentrators).
At least, those are the "copper pennies" that I wish to share with you
all. 🙂
Eric
On 2026-02-13 11:48, Michael Richardson via sigs-l3go wrote:
A few Canadian IETF people will be chatting next Friday about ways to support
Canadians (individuals and companies) with moving away from the
US/multinational megacorps. To me, particularly for email.
I don't know what form this effort will take.
I'm aware there is a Montreal company selling/supporting
Nextcloud... hardware, I think. But I'm not sure. CRM knows them.
It's ironic funny that after 15 years of what I would consider "jeering"
about why do I waste my time running my own mail server... those people are
kinda screwed over.
While I found that Gwynn Dyer (journalist. Did he pass away?) went full RFK
at some point), one thing that he said years ago was that:
It's not the world is being USA-ified.
It's that the world is being Post-Industrial Globalized, and that the USA
was just the first victim.
I don't know how many of your are still running mailman2.
mailman3 is finally more stable. stock mailman2 has a number of problems
that can ruin email reputations... I haven't had as many gmail delivery
issues since things got sorted out. Not that I'm not upset about the trend.
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