IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at smtpng.org

Wed Aug 21 21:21:42 UTC 2002

At 11:50 AM -0400 2002/08/21, Robert Blayzor wrote:

>  Well yes, it could be done with certificates, but it can also be done
>  via some type of "root server" system like DNS uses.  A database
>  distributed among many root servers from the registrars is proven.

	Look.  The DNS is seriously screwed-up enough as it is.  Let's 
not take a bad model and replicate it elsewhere.

>  Tracking valid servers seems much easier to track rather than
>  blacklisting IP's that are not mail servers at all or are abusive
>  servers.

	Sure.  Only accept e-mail from white-listed servers.  You don't 
need a complex system to manage that.

>            IMHO I don't think it would be that horrible of an idea with
>  the right amount of notification and education to state something such
>  as "register your mail servers by this date or risk service
>  interruption".

	Sure.  Are you willing to be the first?

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
     -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.

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