On Wed, 30 May 2007 15:52:17 -0700 Michael Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Scott Kitterman wrote:
>> On Wednesday 30 May 2007 18:22, Jim Fenton wrote:
>> 
>>> (2) SSP record type (TXT vs. something new). Only 4 messages in 
discussion,
>>> mostly saying "if you support TXT, don't bother with anything else." 
>>> Again, no clear consensus.
>> 
>> Agreed.  There is also a view that if you go with a new RR type, don't 
bother 
>> with SSP.  By the time a new RR type is widely deployable, the market 
will 
>> have found a different solution.
>
>I have a lot of sympathy for this point of view, but something
>also to consider here is that there is a relatively small, but
>motivated set up of people who would like to use SSP as early
>adopters. These are people who are being attacked by phishers
>and would find it relatively easy to make a broad statement like
>"by all means, trash mail from me that isn't signed". For those
>folks, it just needs to be possible at all. For bind, this is a
>straightforward, if somewhat aesthetically unappealing, process.
>Other resolvers may vary (obviously).
>
Receivers need to be able to query it too for it to be useful.  Doable in 
BIND is intersting, but not nearly sufficient.

Scott K
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