What does "Security Compliance" mean?
An informal idea which would need to be formalized. Along the lines of, Must be a server on its own IP address, Not behind a NAT solution. Must not be open relay etc
I'm not sure that many ISPs would be able to measure these things ( message rates, etc. )
Agreed.. Most ISP's dont measure this, however when you mention to them how many messages you are going to send them they start going into a minor flap, until you set some agreed speed of delivery. One ISP i know does limit the number of email messages from one server in an hour.. Kinda weird, but true. However the idea behind that is confidence for the ISP that any content provider on this service will not swamp their services with email messages.
What does your company do? Are you an IT provider, or some kind of hosting provider?
IT Consulting, however I also head up the Network Operations for a Broadcaster (Rhema Broadcasting Group), who is keen to extend its Internet presence, and so were exploring ways of doing this without annoying the heck out of ISP's
What were the suggestions made to you, and why were you not able to meet them?
We have implemented a number of suggestions from various ISP, however there are a few who just plain don't want to talk to us, making it hard to adhere to what ever policies they have. The last one we talked to suggested they wont speak to us as we were not a customer and that we needed to get their customers to call us.. Which seems a little ludicrous, some of our subscribers are 75 year old ladies who barely know how to surf, imagine the chaos of getting them to discuss SMTP Etiquette.
ps. http://www.ignition.net.nz points to a Google apps start page, which (if I were an ISP evaluating whether to let your customers send unfiltered bulk mail to me or not) looks a bit.. well, I wouldn't give me great confidence that this was a legitimate company who can hold up their end of the bargain. I'm not saying that's the case, but first impressions etc.
The Ignition domain space is purely a personal email address and is currently in use evaluating the Google Apps solution. As far as confidence and credibility of such a proposed service well, it would have to be built from the ground up, and i would add probably have some form of NZ ISP representation. Im keen to start working on something that can work for a wide range of people, however if there is just no interest in the concept then there is no point pursuing it. Hence the email. Regards Skip