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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: that MIT paper again (Re: VeriSign's rapid DNS updates in .com/.net ) (longish)
On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 22:30:46 BST, Simon Waters <[email protected]> said: > I think relying on accurate DNS information to distinguish spammers from > genuine senders is at best shakey currently, the only people I can think > would suffer with making it easier and quicker to create new domains > would be people relying on something like SPF, but I think that just > reveals issues with SPF, and the design flaws of SPF shouldn't influence > how we should manage the DNS. Ahh.. but if SPF (complete with issues and design flaws) is widely deployed, we may not have any choice regarding whether its issues and flaws dictate the DNS management. Remember that we've seen this before - RFC2052 didn't specify a '_', RFC2782 does. And we all know where BIND's "delegation-only" came from.... Attachment:
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