[Fwd: Last Call: draft-hutzler-spamops (Email Submission: Access and Accountability) to BCP]

2007-06-06 Thread Dave Crocker
into account the amount of time since the first Last Call the Area Director and the editors decided to run again a two weeks Last Call. The file can be obtained via http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-hutzler-spamops-07.txt -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net

Re: On-going Internet Emergency and Domain Names

2007-04-01 Thread Dave Crocker
the sign, since I knew they'd be closed on Sunday. His comment was that tomorrow never comes. Someday, indeed. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net

DKIM for ISPs

2006-02-24 Thread Dave Crocker
/breakfast.pdf for details. Please pass this note to anyone you feel might be interested in hearing about it. Thanks. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking http://bbiw.net

A request for your support of:hutzler-spamops-05.txt

2006-01-26 Thread Dave Crocker
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Re: mail service with no mx (was - Re: Computer systems blamed for feeble hurricane response?)

2005-09-14 Thread Dave Crocker
a number of email boundary gateway mediating services by then -- and very probably back to 1973. (I just know that some MIT type is going to claim pre-1970, given the generality of the definition I offered.) d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking +1.408.246.8253 dcrocker a t

Re: CircleID: News from the E-mail Authentication Summit in NYC

2005-07-21 Thread Dave Crocker
is *strongly* encouraged. -- d/ Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking +1.408.246.8253 dcrocker a t ... WE'VE MOVED to: www.bbiw.net

Re: Non-English Domain Names Likely Delayed

2005-07-17 Thread Dave Crocker
, given that no all policy-making is at the TLD level? d/ Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking +1.408.246.8253 dcrocker a t ... WE'VE MOVED to: www.bbiw.net

Re: E-mail Authentication Implementation Summit 2005?

2005-07-14 Thread Dave Crocker
of implementations, pointer to mailing list, copies of specs, etc. I'll try to get a cop of Eric's presentation. -- d/ Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking +1.408.246.8253 dcrocker a t ... WE'VE MOVED to: www.bbiw.net

Re: E-mail Authentication Implementation Summit 2005?

2005-07-14 Thread Dave Crocker
The DKIM announcement on Monday resulted in its having increased attention and Eric Allman gave an excellent presentation about it. Does anyone know if any of these presentations are available anywhere? eric's presentation is now at http://mipassoc.org/mass -- d/ Dave

Re: E-mail Authentication Implementation Summit 2005?

2005-07-13 Thread Dave Crocker
an excellent presentation about it. -- d/ Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking +1.408.246.8253 dcrocker a t ... WE'VE MOVED to: www.bbiw.net

Re: Yahoo and Cisco to submit e-mail ID spec to IETF

2005-07-12 Thread Dave Crocker
Roaylty-free does not mean it can be used by everyone. it would probably help to debate the licensing details when folks have looked at the specific language of the licensing agreement(s). begin:vcard fn:Dave Crocker n:Crocker;Dave adr:;;;Sunnyvale;CA;94086;USA email;internet:dcrocker a t

Re: mh (RE: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008)

2005-07-07 Thread Dave Crocker
...) the effort is relying on IPv6 and on the disappearance of NATs, for v6. one might consider these to be critical dependencies that are rather risky. -- d/ Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking +1.408.246.8253 dcrocker a t ... WE'VE MOVED to: www.bbiw.net

Re: mh (RE: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008)

2005-07-07 Thread Dave Crocker
. naive would be another term to consider. d/ --- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking +1.408.246.8253 dcrocker a t ... WE'VE MOVED to: www.bbiw.net

Re: Localized mail servers, global scope

2005-06-23 Thread Dave Crocker
In other words, SMTP does not have the equivalent of an HTTP redirect which is what he wants here. Maybe SMTP really is broken? ;-) hmm. i seem to recall a similar redirect mechanism in SMTP some time ago. not worth the effort; broken; or somesuch. anyhow, once you've hit a server, the

Re: Localized mail servers, global scope

2005-06-23 Thread Dave Crocker
In his case, it sounds like he actually has a business case for solution 3 above. I think there is *always* a business case for making infrastructure communications services work efficiently and reliably. However the world is pretty consistent about efforts to fix long-standing human

Re: Localized mail servers, global scope

2005-06-23 Thread Dave Crocker
Many mail servers don't know a user's forwarding address at SMTP time; ahh, right. something about email being s/f, and therefore not direct. requiring 'the next hop' to have complete knowledge doesn't work. requiring a particular hop to the 'the last hop' also causes problems. hmm. i

Re: Localized mail servers, global scope

2005-06-23 Thread Dave Crocker
I don't have the answers but I think the 10 years of failure to put a dent in spam have shown beyond the shadow of a doubt that Internet email is broken by design and bandaids are not going to fix this, no matter how many different bandaids are applied. It is time to re-engineer with the

Re: Localized mail servers, global scope

2005-06-22 Thread Dave Crocker
Andrew Staples wrote: 3. Change company policy to reflect names like [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], etc, where DNS would resolve to the correct server. Doesn't give corporate the email image they are after. 4. Change robustness level at group HQ for relay to individual mail

Re: Email peering

2005-06-20 Thread Dave Crocker
are valid, but the reality is that they are not all that difficult to appreciate, if one looks at the process of obtaining global adoption in a voluntary environment. d/ --- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking +1.408.246.8253 dcrocker a t ... WE'VE MOVED to: www.bbiw.net

Re: Email peering

2005-06-18 Thread Dave Crocker
of best practises, and have organization commit to supporting them. d/ --- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking +1.408.246.8253 dcrocker a t ... WE'VE MOVED to: www.bbiw.net

Informal email peering (was: Email peering)

2005-06-16 Thread Dave Crocker
provide a basis for something a bit more scalable and a bit more formal. That's where a membership organization that issues formal best practises comes in. d/ --- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking +1.408.246.8253 dcrocker a t ... WE'VE MOVED to: www.bbiw.net

Re: The IETF needs your input about the Spamops document

2005-06-14 Thread Dave Crocker
no. inadequate ops clue and sometimes overly eager/encroaching ops efforts. perhaps this is an example? and perhaps it isn't. but thanks for such a constructive contribution. d/ --- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking +1.408.246.8253 dcrocker a t ... WE'VE MOVED

The IETF needs your input about the Spamops document

2005-06-13 Thread Dave Crocker
. This document is a limited, first-step in specifying voluntary standards for service providers, in their cross-net email operations. Please send your comments to: To: ietf@ietf.org cc: iesg@ietf.org Thanks. d/ --- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking +1.408.246.8253 dcrocker a t

Re: Micorsoft's Sender ID Authentication......?

2005-06-08 Thread Dave Crocker
the criticisms of the basic path registration (somewhat akin to registering source routes) schemes used by SPF and Sender-ID, those two different specs have different constituencies and were not overly successful as merging. d/ --- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking +1.408.246.8253

Re: Federal Security Bureau asks for more authority to control Internet

2005-04-28 Thread Dave Crocker
.) d/ --- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking +1.408.246.8253 dcrocker a t ... WE'VE MOVED to: www.bbiw.net

Re: Auerbach Accuses ICANN Board of Dereliction of Duty on IP Allocation

2005-04-13 Thread Dave Crocker
nanog? d/ --- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking +1.408.246.8253 dcrocker a t ... WE'VE MOVED to: www.bbiw.net

Re: Telcordia report on ICANN .net RFP Evaluation

2005-03-31 Thread Dave Crocker
cluster is primarily composed of people with serious (and probably larger-scale) network services operation experience and the other cluster has pretty much no one of that ilk... d/ --- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking +1.408.246.8253 dcrocker a t ... WE'VE MOVED

Re: UN Panel Aims to End Internet Tug of War by July

2005-02-21 Thread Dave Crocker
the web and email, given that spam is a messaging phenomenon, not a publishing phenomenon. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking +1.408.246.8253 dcrocker  a t ... WE'VE MOVED to:  www.bbiw.net

Re: UN Panel Aims to End Internet Tug of War by July

2005-02-21 Thread Dave Crocker
too cryptic. yes, they are using the term 'web' to mean 'the internet'. the problem is that professional writing needs to be careful, and a failure at such a basic level as using web to apply to email does not bode well for the utility of the article... d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg

Fwd: Revised CSV-Intro and CSV-CSA specifications

2005-02-20 Thread Dave Crocker
FYI. I am forwarding this to nanog because there is a request for folks willing to do field testing. d/ --- Original Message --- From: Dave Crocker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Sent: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 15:18:11 +0900 Subject: Revised CSV-Intro and CSV-CSA specifications   Folks

draft-crocker-email-arch-03

2005-02-17 Thread Dave Crocker
/specifications/draft-crocker-email-arch-03.txt -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking +1.408.246.8253 dcrocker  a t ... WE'VE MOVED to:  www.bbiw.net

Re: draft-crocker-email-arch-03

2005-02-17 Thread Dave Crocker
in the underlying technical architecture. The current doc uses it as an operations construct. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking +1.408.246.8253 dcrocker  a t ... WE'VE MOVED to:  www.bbiw.net

Re: Sunday Night NANOG Community Input Agenda (update)

2005-01-30 Thread Dave Crocker
tonight's meeting? d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking +1.408.246.8253 dcrocker  a t ... WE'VE MOVED to:  www.bbiw.net

Re: [eweek article] Window of anonymity when domain exists, whois not updated yet

2005-01-13 Thread Dave Crocker
as the AS-AS requirement. In fact, this is exactly the problem that CSV attends to. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking +1.408.246.8253 dcrocker  a t ... WE'VE MOVED to:  www.bbiw.net

Re: fixing insecure email infrastructure (was: Re: [eweek article] Window of anonymity when domain exists, whois not updated yet)

2005-01-12 Thread Dave Crocker
and csv (and maybe spf) are attempting to provide. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking +1.408.246.8253 dcrocker  a t ... WE'VE MOVED to:  www.bbiw.net

Re: why upload with adsl is faster than 100M ethernet ?

2004-11-01 Thread Dave Crocker
, and verify that you do not get the (bad) differential performance there. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking +1.408.246.8253 dcrocker a t ... www.brandenburg.com

Re: OT- need a new GSM provider

2004-09-07 Thread Dave Crocker
Cingular.) d/ -- Dave Crocker dcrocker-at-brandenburg-dot-com Brandenburg InternetWorking www.brandenburg.com Sunnyvale, CA USA tel:+1.408.246.8253

Re: isn't ...isn't perfect, but it's something now

2004-08-13 Thread Dave Crocker
Folks, 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. TH There was a BoF called MASS held at the recent IETF

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

2004-08-09 Thread Dave Crocker
of legitimate mail suggest per-user and per-message policy mechanisms are likely to have a few scaling problems. EBD No, SPF isn't perfect. I'm trying to decide if it's even good. Would that more folks were trying to consider the various proposals carefully. d/ -- Dave Crocker mailto:[EMAIL

China ISC Workshop Trip Report

2004-05-14 Thread Dave Crocker
Folks, Richard Cox and I participated in an anti-spam workshop in China last month. A copy of our trip report is at: http://brandenburg.com/reports/200404-isc-trip-report.htm d/ -- Dave Crocker mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Brandenburg InternetWorking http://www.brandenburg.com

Re: Long-term identifiers (was Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?)

2004-03-17 Thread Dave Crocker
? In other words, why trust the identifier? Or at least, how would this identifier really be long term? d/ -- Dave Crocker dcrocker-at-brandenburg-dot-com Brandenburg InternetWorking www.brandenburg.com Sunnyvale, CA USA tel:+1.408.246.8253

Re: Clueless service restrictions (was RE: Anti-spam System Idea)

2004-02-18 Thread Dave Crocker
that there is a good basis for tracking down problematic sources. That, too, is a good thing. d/) -- Dave Crocker dcrocker-at-brandenburg-dot-com Brandenburg InternetWorking www.brandenburg.com Sunnyvale, CA USA tel:+1.408.246.8253

Re: Clueless service restrictions (was RE: Anti-spam System Idea)

2004-02-18 Thread Dave Crocker
time-frame. And, oh by the way, all SPF tries to do is to authenticate the From field. Forgive me for not being reassured that wide use of SPF will merely mean that the spam I get will have a valid From field. d/ -- Dave Crocker dcrocker-at-brandenburg-dot-com Brandenburg InternetWorking

Re: SMTP authentication for broadband providers

2004-02-12 Thread Dave Crocker
consensus that answers that question in concrete and practical terms, then all our efforts are losing and stop-gap. d/ -- Dave Crocker dcrocker-at-brandenburg-dot-com Brandenburg InternetWorking www.brandenburg.com Sunnyvale, CA USA tel:+1.408.246.8253

Re: SMTP authentication for broadband providers

2004-02-11 Thread Dave Crocker
Adi, AL We're relying exclusively on SMTP AUTH for SMTP relaying. what about port 25 blocking that is now done by many access providers? this makes it impossible for mobile users, coming from those providers, to access your server and do the auth. d/ -- Dave Crocker dcrocker-at-brandenburg

Re: False information: CEO of Versign facts are wrong

2003-10-17 Thread Dave Crocker
the public relations campaign that Verisign is conducting. d/ -- Dave Crocker dcrocker-at-brandenburg-dot-com Brandenburg InternetWorking www.brandenburg.com Sunnyvale, CA USA tel:+1.408.246.8253

Re: Email Deliverability Summit II Update

2003-10-17 Thread Dave Crocker
that your group intends to bring these proposed standards to a venue that does open standards development and adoption, to ensure that the specifications are subject to broad review and commentary. d/ -- Dave Crocker dcrocker-at-brandenburg-dot-com Brandenburg InternetWorking www.brandenburg.com

Re: News coverage, Verisign etc.

2003-10-08 Thread Dave Crocker
contract with ICANN, and should they have SMB such a right. Is exactly the right way to approach this topic. (I think Howard's foray into categorizing issues is also extremely constructive.) d/ -- Dave Crocker dcrocker-at-brandenburg-dot-com Brandenburg InternetWorking www.brandenburg.com

Re: Verisign Responds

2003-09-25 Thread Dave Crocker
that DNS wildcards should not be used in a zone unless the zone operator has a clear understanding of the risks, and that they should not be used without the informed consent of those entities which have been delegated below the zone. d/ -- Dave Crocker dcrocker-at-brandenburg-dot-com

Re: Verisign Responds

2003-09-23 Thread Dave Crocker
-- Dave Crocker dcrocker-at-brandenburg-dot-com Brandenburg InternetWorking www.brandenburg.com Sunnyvale, CA USA tel:+1.408.246.8253

Re: Is there a technical solution to SPAM?

2003-07-30 Thread Dave Crocker
they don't care about making money. Spammers are like roaches. They are here to stay. They are aggressive. They adapt. We need to respond with a variety of mechanisms, preferably coordinated to maximize the aggregate effect. d/ -- Dave Crocker mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Brandenburg

Re: Remote email access

2003-02-05 Thread Dave Crocker
Michael, Wednesday, February 5, 2003, 1:04:08 AM, you wrote: MDrc What would be the point? Well, if my MTA receives a connection on port 25 MDrc I could look up the source IP address in the LDAP directory to identify MDrc the owner. Since an LDAP directory can contain arbitrary information MDrc

Re: Remote email access

2003-02-04 Thread Dave Crocker
Jack, Tuesday, February 4, 2003, 7:16:04 AM, you wrote: JB From: Daniel Senie I'd be happy to see certs in use for MTA-MTA (and indeed support this today on my systems when talking to other MTAs which are using STARTTLS). ... JB I'm concerned with MTA to MTA. ... A flag day is JB necessary,

Re: Remote email access

2003-02-04 Thread Dave Crocker
Al, Tuesday, February 4, 2003, 10:20:50 AM, you wrote: AR Don't even need that. I can telnet into the appropriate server/port 1. as you note, that is a solution that does not scale to millions of non-technical users. 2. many people need access from their laptops (ie, their office), rather

Re: Remote email access

2003-02-04 Thread Dave Crocker
John, Tuesday, February 4, 2003, 10:50:14 AM, you wrote: IMHO, to block ALL outbound port 25 traffic on the sending end is throwing the baby out with the bathwater. JRL It certainly is, but for most ISPs, there's a very small baby in a huge JRL tub of spam. Remember that this whole question

Re: Remote email access

2003-02-03 Thread Dave Crocker
JC, Monday, February 3, 2003, 9:43:01 PM, you wrote: JD Dave Crocker wrote: Recently I had protracted discussions with a number of Ops folks about this issue and have chosen to drop that debate. I do not agree with blocking port 25, either, but am far more concerned about having a ... JD Why

Remote email access

2003-01-30 Thread Dave Crocker
Folks, The Ops community and the IETF Email community appear to have different views about appropriate methods for email posting. The difference frequently means that an effort to post a new message from a network with a firewall, to a remote SMTP, is blocked by the outbound firewall. Blocking

Re: Remote email access

2003-01-30 Thread Dave Crocker
Eliot, Thursday, January 30, 2003, 7:25:05 PM, you wrote: EL The submission port, according to IANA is 587. Sorry about that detail. I searched the IANA port assignment file for 'submit' rather than 'submission'. Luckily, the error does not affect the core concern I am raising. EL I'm not a

Re: Wireless insecurity at NANOG meetings

2002-09-22 Thread Dave Crocker
and, sometimes, software to support this. They also can learn what mechanisms provide real security and what mechanisms do not. d/ -- Dave Crocker mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TribalWise, Inc. http://www.tribalwise.com tel +1.408.246.8253; fax +1.408.850.1850

Re: Wireless insecurity at NANOG meetings

2002-09-22 Thread Dave Crocker
into a false sense of security. d/ -- Dave Crocker mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TribalWise, Inc. http://www.tribalwise.com tel +1.408.246.8253; fax +1.408.850.1850

Re: How do you stop outgoing spam?

2002-09-18 Thread Dave Crocker
with smtpauth ensures full accountability and, therefore, prevents spam. blocking 25 disables use of this mechanism. d/ -- Dave Crocker mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TribalWise, Inc. http://www.tribalwise.com tel +1.408.246.8253; fax +1.408.850.1850

Re: How do you stop outgoing spam?

2002-09-18 Thread Dave Crocker
then. Too bad the 100 million current Internet users do not know that. d/ -- Dave Crocker mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TribalWise, Inc. http://www.tribalwise.com tel +1.408.246.8253; fax +1.408.850.1850

Re: How do you stop outgoing spam?

2002-09-18 Thread Dave Crocker
/ -- Dave Crocker mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TribalWise, Inc. http://www.tribalwise.com tel +1.408.246.8253; fax +1.408.850.1850

Re: How do you stop outgoing spam?

2002-09-17 Thread Dave Crocker
users and the implication for such minor opportunities such as wireless hotspots. d/ -- Dave Crocker mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TribalWise, Inc. http://www.tribalwise.com tel +1.408.246.8253; fax +1.408.850.1850

Re: How do you stop outgoing spam?

2002-09-10 Thread Dave Crocker
, mobile users are hurt badly. I know that *I* certainly am. Constantly and serously. d/ -- Dave Crocker mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TribalWise, Inc. http://www.tribalwise.com tel +1.408.246.8253; fax +1.408.850.1850

Re: How do you stop outgoing spam?

2002-09-10 Thread Dave Crocker
Shein wrote: On September 10, 2002 at 10:16 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Crocker) wrote: One of the basic problems with discussions about spam control is that it focuses entirely on spam. Blocking output SMTP from individual dial-ups has a serious negative consequence: Yeah, well, too late

Re: How do you stop outgoing spam?

2002-09-10 Thread Dave Crocker
/ -- Dave Crocker mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TribalWise, Inc. http://www.tribalwise.com tel +1.408.246.8253; fax +1.408.850.1850

Re: If you have nothing to hide

2002-08-04 Thread Dave Crocker
, but consensus views should be helpful for making them. d -- Dave Crocker mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TribalWise, Inc. http://www.tribalwise.com tel +1.408.246.8253; fax +1.408.850.1850

Re: references on non-central authority network protocols

2002-04-17 Thread Dave Crocker
. The central authority in these cases is either some sort of statute or the cooperative enforcement of the participation community. d/ -- Dave Crocker mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TribalWise, Inc. http://www.tribalwise.com tel +1.408.246.8253; fax +1.408.850.1850