Re: SPF again (Re: XO Mail engineers?)

2004-08-09 Thread Dave Crocker
Edward, DAU I don't think SPF is worthless [1] but it isn't a drop-in DAU solution and the impact on infrastructure will be DAU significant if it becomes widely adopted. EBD When an architecture is maxed out, it's difficult to make EBD significant improvents that are drop-in. On the theory

Re: Verisign vs. ICANN

2004-08-09 Thread Paul Vixie
PS. I am excited - Vixie as a co-conspirator... Vixie, you can be proud -:). i'm not, though. not proud, and not a co-conspirator. this whole thing makes me want to puke. the worst thing is, the people i know inside verisign seem to wish i wouldn't take it so personally. but if their stock

Re: SPF again (Re: XO Mail engineers?)

2004-08-09 Thread Edward B. Dreger
DC Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 15:08:12 -0700 DC From: Dave Crocker DC DAU I don't think SPF is worthless [1] but it isn't a drop-in DC DAU solution and the impact on infrastructure will be DC DAU significant if it becomes widely adopted. DC EBD When an architecture is maxed out, it's difficult to

Re: SPF again (Re: XO Mail engineers?)

2004-08-09 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 04:00:56 -, Edward B. Dreger said: Without new code/libs to parse the TXT RR, SPF doesn't work. As long as new code is being written, it seems logical to have another RRTYPE assigned -- that's one less thing to change later. On the other hand, having to deploy a new

Re: SPF again (Re: XO Mail engineers?)

2004-08-09 Thread Paul Vixie
Without new code/libs to parse the TXT RR, SPF doesn't work. ... that could be one of the reasons why, two years before the advent of SPF, i wrote up and circulated jim miller's idea from 1998. if you want to know about the paths not taken, see http://sa.vix.com/~vixie/mailfrom.txt. On the

Re: that MIT paper again

2004-08-09 Thread David G. Andersen
Regarding both Paul's message below and Simon Walter's earlier message on this topic... Simon Walters scribed: I'm slightly concerned that the authors think web traffic is the big source of DNS, they may well be right (especially given one of the authors is talking about his own network),