Re: Email peering

2005-06-18 Thread John Levine
In between the choice of accepting mail from *anybody* by default which we have now and the choice of accepting mail from *nobody* by default that explicit peering agreements represents there is another solution; which is to accept mail only from IPs that have *some relation* to the sender's From

Re: Email peering

2005-06-18 Thread Mike Leber
On 18 Jun 2005, John Levine wrote: In between the choice of accepting mail from *anybody* by default which we have now and the choice of accepting mail from *nobody* by default that explicit peering agreements represents there is another solution; which is to accept mail only from IPs that

Re: Telephone pedestals

2005-06-18 Thread Robert E . Seastrom
james edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am looking for a seller of outdoor Telephone pedestals. I plan to install a DSLAM, post splitters and associated cross connect gear in this enclosure. Can anyone suggest a dealer for this sort of gear ? http://www.sprintnorthsupply.com/

Re: Email peering

2005-06-18 Thread John Levine
This has the same problem as all of the other duct tape authorization schemes -- it breaks a lot of valid e-mail, ... In this particular case, the biggest issue is forwarders, ... This gets into the discussion of what percentage of mail a user gets that is like this. It varies widely.

Re: IP-Country Data (RE: ISP's Contact List)

2005-06-18 Thread Edward B. Dreger
w Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 10:39:54 -0700 (PDT) w From: william(at)elan.net w http://www.completewhois.com/statistics/data/ips-bycountry/rirstats/ See also: .zz.countries.nerd.dk IN A lookups return 127.0.x.x, where x.x is a two-octet representation of the ISO 3166 numeric country

Re: Email peering

2005-06-18 Thread Dave Crocker
Folks, DNSWL -- this is already being done. It is not widely viewed as being in any way similar to a peering concept. What would be more similar would be a consortium of large providers providing such a whitelist. That would be something I would welcome. To repeat what John Levine said,

Re: Email peering (Was: Economics of SPAM [Was: Micorsoft's Sender IDAuthentication......?]

2005-06-18 Thread Petri Helenius
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Today, if Joe Business gets lots of spam, it is not his ISP's responsibility. He has no-one to take responsibility for this problem off his hands. But if he only accepts incoming email through an operator who is part of the email peering network, he knows that

ARIN's new allocations from IANA

2005-06-18 Thread Leslie Nobile
Hello- ARIN received the IPv4 address blocks 74.0.0.0 /8 and 75.0.0.0 /8 and 76.0.0.0 /8 from the IANA on June 17, 2005. In the near future, ARIN will begin making allocations from these new blocks. This will include allocations of /20 and shorter prefixes, according to ARIN's minimum