Re: [dns-wg] DNS RMX records - e-mail sender authorization

[Brad Knowles <]

At 9:25 AM +0200 2003/10/15, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:

> >  http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-danisch-dns-rr-smtp-03.txt
>  Bad idea, like every method that prevents me from using "From:
>  bortzmeyer@localhost" (work address) when I'm at home and connected via
>  my IAP Nerim.
	I agree.  The IETF/IRTF Anti-Spam Working Group is reviewing a 
number of similar proposals of this nature (including this one), and 
I am pretty strongly opposed to all of them, for similar reasons.

	Too many people support this concept to seriously hope that we 
can get this idea killed in committee before it ever gets into the 
documents that are generated by the ASRG.  However, I can at least 
hope that enough caveats are added and the known problems it causes 
are highlighted strongly enough that people are either discouraged 
from using this sort of technique at all, or they only use it as part 
of a "whitelist" method.


	You may want to consider applying to join the ASRG if you feel 
strongly about this issue.

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