> On Jul 25, 2017, at 10:34 , Michael Peddemors <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On 17-07-24 05:06 PM, Tony Hain wrote:
>> I still don’t see any value in specifying length. What you are looking for 
>> is contact info for someone with a clue about how a given network works and 
>> using length as a really poor proxy. I could live with a fourth line:
>> Any end network emitting SMTP system SHOULD provide SWIP.
>> I just don’t know how that gets enforced in any reasonable way. In general 
>> SMTP & independent routing are the big targets needing accurate contact 
>> info, and length has absolutely nothing to do with either.
>> Tony
> 
> While I agree in principle, it CAN be provided by "SWIP" OR 'rwhois', and 
> that should be pointed out, as rwhois is more flexible in the IPv4 space, eg 
> providing allocation information to the /32 level.
> 
> This again goes to an earlier email where I described that it should be more 
> conceptual, than specific ranges..
> 
> It should be, "if a party is responsible for the originating traffic", then 
> that party should be displayed via SWIP/rwhois.

Well… That’s hard to implement in practice. How do we go about SWIPing all 
those home windows boxes to the hackers that are actually controlling the 
emitted traffic?

Owen

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