1.1.1.0/24

D'Arcy J.M. Cain darcy at druid.net
Fri May 15 01:52:04 UTC 1998


Thus spake Dean Robb
> >I think it would be a reasonable proposal for ARIN to modify
> >its SWIP process to do a dnslookup for the email domain to very
> >it as valid.  Possibly even a SMTP VRFY or EXPN command.
[...]
> As for the confidentiality matter:  there's a problem...a little thing
> called the RFCs.  Specifically, RFCs 1032, 1033, 920, 1173, 1174 (and
> several others) require contact information that is "complete, correct and

I think he was referring to organizations that don't reveal the user
data (or reveal bogus data) in response to a SMTP VRFY or EXPN command,
not the data in the whois record.

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