isn't "...isn't perfect, but it's something now"

Thu Aug 12 23:59:51 UTC 2004

At 3:32 PM -0700 8/12/04, Douglas Otis wrote:
>
>There is a proposal that should interest you.  It is called Bounce Tag
>Address Validation By Dave Crocker.
>
>http://www.brandenburg.com/specifications/draft-crocker-marid-batv-00-06dc.html
>
>This proposal is now in the IETF MASS WG.

There was a BoF called MASS held at the recent IETF meetings in San Diego;
it has not yet been approved as a working group and no charter has been
reviewed by the IESG.  While I believe the work on BATV is interesting,
I am not sure gating it on the approval of MASS is a good idea.  One of
BATV's advantages is that there are ways to use it which are workable
within a single domain's administrative control.  These do not eliminate
a domain's need to do some handling of bounces, but they can avoid those
bounces ending up in individuals' mailboxes.  Reading the drafts, commenting
to the authors, and trying out those elements of the system need not
wait for action on the WG.

Just my opinion,
			regards,
				Ted Hardie