Re declare SPF and Sender-ID to be Informational

2005-12-09 Thread John Levine
or otherwise. I'd suggest the most sensible thing to do is to reclassify both of them as Informational, to document what you might find in some TXT records, publish them, and be done with it. Regards, John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTED], IRTF ASRG chair ___ Ietf

Re: Re declare SPF and Sender-ID to be Informational

2005-12-09 Thread John Levine
What exactly do you think needs to be changed with the SPF draft? If you want to document what people do with SPF now, nothing other than making it Informational. If you actually want to do experiments, change the record format so it won't be confused with Sender-ID or anything else and you can

Re: bozoproofing the net, was The Value of Reputation

2005-12-31 Thread John Levine
I hope the message here is not that we should restrict ourselves to developing technology that is idiot-proof, since a sufficiently determined idiot, of which there are many, will do idiotic things with any technology that we never in a million years would have anticipated. However, ... The

Re: bozoproofing the IETF process, was bozoproofing the net

2006-01-02 Thread John Levine
is bad, and about a hundred other things and wrap it all up in about 2014 just as the last e-mail user gives up and switches to one of three proprietary IM systems. So can people give me guidance? What problem are we trying to solve with the danger warnings? Regards, John Levine, [EMAIL

Re: bozo-proofing the net (or making better bozos?)

2006-01-02 Thread John Levine
Can we also conclude that SSL/TLS has failed as a tool for general communication? If we were holding it to the same requirements that some appear to be asking for DKIM, I think we'd have to. There is a certain amount of SMTP over TLS, an entirely automated application, and the net hasn't

Re: Alternative formats for IDs

2006-01-02 Thread John Levine
Now PDF does qualify but it is basicly an extended version of PostScript. Since IETF already accepts postscript, the question should be is there a need for features in PDF that are not in standard postscript. If there is then we can talk about it. There is, actually. Postscript is well specified

Re: Question about the Neustar logo on www.ietf.org

2006-01-02 Thread John Levine
NeuStar is the .us Registy and has entered into an open root agreement with the GSMA, supporting the .gprs TLD. That the IETF pays to host a link to them may certainly be perceived as a political signal. Oh, no, not this again. Neustar's .gprs TLD exists only on a special purpose private

Re: WG Review: Domain Keys Identified Mail (dkim)

2006-01-02 Thread John Levine
Here is the revised proposed charter text: Thanks for pulling this together. If I had unlimited time to waste, I might niggle about a word or two, but it's fine as is, and I look forward to moving ahead and getting some work done. R's, John ___ Ietf

Re: bozoproofing the net, was The Value of Reputation

2006-01-04 Thread John Levine
Roughly we need to consider how DKIM is used, not just define a technology. We need to talk about bad uses of DKIM as soon as we are aware that they are sufficinetly likely that they are worth considering. Here's a concrete suggestion: it is clear that the bad uses of DKIM people have

Re: bozoproofing DKIM concerns

2006-01-04 Thread John Levine
if something like DKIM is successful, I would expect an equilibrium where filters are set extremely high and nearly all good senders authenticate their messages because otherwise they stand an unacceptably high chance of having them rejected. That seems plausible at some point, maybe five

Re: Engineering our way out of a brown paper bag [Re: Consensus b ased on reading tea leaves]

2006-01-05 Thread John Levine
Quite frankly, I believe we can address the second step (which of the requirements are not met today?) with a firm none. At some level that's clearly true, since RFCs are emerging at a brisk clip. I've seen two different sets of concerns. One is that ASCII doesn't permit adequately

Re: FW: IETF Last Call under RFC 3683 concerning JFC (Jefsey) Morfin

2006-01-21 Thread John Levine
This is NOT the United States Senate and House of Representatives. You may think that filibustering is normal and appreciated and democratic. It is not. This is the core of the issue. The point of this forum is to get work done. The rules for participation are not hard to figure out, and are

Re: junior lawyers, was List archives and copyright

2006-01-23 Thread John Levine
The key phrase here is you are informed. You have to be informed and agree to it. ... Can I politely encourage people who are not lawyers to refrain from expressing legal opinions here, or even worse stating legal opinions as though they were facts? I know just enough about copyright law to

Re: John Cowan supports 3683 PR-action against Jefsey Morfin

2006-01-23 Thread John Levine
Replace Mr. Morfin with Dr. King and see how it sounds. Have we just discovered a new corollary to Godwin's Law? R's, John ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: too many notes -- a modest proposal

2006-01-26 Thread John Levine
Set a rolling monthly quota, then. Nobody constantly sends a long stream of consistently productive messages. We've certainly been made aware of that. R's, John ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: IETF65 hotel location

2006-01-27 Thread John Levine
This statement, The Wyndham is less than a ten minute walk from the Hilton Anatole. is a bit odd -- at least Maporama prints out the distance as 22.7 kilometers, 16 mins with a car. Did I do something wrong? Whassa matter, 23 km is too far to walk? Wimp. Visiting Dallas without a car is

Re: IETF65 hotel location

2006-01-27 Thread John Levine
Cue ten further emails describing various Google Earth mashups that correlate restaurants with capacity, wait time and geek acceptability If we could morph it into a signup system that distributed people according to restauant capacity and avoided the problem that someone says I hear there's a

Re: IETF65 hotel location

2006-01-30 Thread John Levine
So, in the context of a location that may be considered isolated, I think it might be useful to consider this an experiment, and judge the reaction of the community after the meeting towards this variable. A reasonable question, but it probably needs to be picked out a little more than that. For

Re: I-D ACTION: draft-ash-alt-formats-01.txt

2006-01-31 Thread John Levine
We propose an experiment based on RFC 3933 allowing, in addition to ASCII text as a normative input/output format, PDF as an additional normative output format. There are a lot of different formats called PDF. There are PDF 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, and 1.4. There's the new PDF/A archival profile along

Re: I-D ACTION: draft-ash-alt-formats-01.txt

2006-01-31 Thread John Levine
First and foremost, if the input format is PDF, how will the RFC Editor edit the document? PDF documents are not editable. Well, this particular proposal only makes PDF an output format, but the question is still a good one. Without an editorial process to create the PDFs, it's not much of an

Copyright status of early RFCs

2006-04-06 Thread John Levine
on this? Regards, John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Primary Perpetrator of The Internet for Dummies, Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, Mayor More Wiener schnitzel, please, said Tom, revealingly. ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf

Re: Copyright status of early RFCs

2006-04-07 Thread John Levine
What is much less clear is the issues surrounding excerpts, or derivative works. The original query pretty clearly asked/asserted whether older RFCs were in the public domain. That's pretty far removed from republication in their entirety. Actually, what he has in mind is indeed republication in

Re: 66th IETF - Registration and Hotel Accommodations

2006-04-23 Thread John Levine
Walking time from the hotel to the conference site is 6 minutes. The advantage of the Delta as compared to closer hotels is that the walk can be done without going outside Is that important? Are there weather or crime issues? Depends how hard it's raining. R's, John

Re: Last Call: 'Proposed Experiment: Normative Format in Addition to ASCII Text' to Experimental RFC (draft-ash-alt-formats)

2006-06-14 Thread John Levine
are important, there are simpler and less risky ways to accomodate them. Regards, John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Primary Perpetrator of The Internet for Dummies, Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, Mayor More Wiener schnitzel, please, said Tom, revealingly. The IESG

Re: are we willing to do change how we do discussions in IETF? (was: moving from hosts to sponsors)

2006-06-24 Thread John Levine
Such as, a requirement for formal cross-area review of the design goals document and of preliminary specifications as a prerequisite before producing a reference implementation. The IETF standards process is already so slow and uncertain that people throw up their hands in exasperation and go

Re: IETF66 - Recommendations for travel from airport to hotels?

2006-07-05 Thread John Levine
The Aerobus runs from the airport to the central bus terminal and costs C$13 OW, $22.75 RT. From the central bus terminal there are free shuttles to most downtown hotels. The web site tells all: http://www.autobus.qc.ca/anglais/aeroportuaire_an.html As far as getting from the hotel to the

Re: Meetings in other regions

2006-07-17 Thread John Levine
If it is that bad front of the house I don't trust their maintenance crews. No problem, they locked out the mechanics union and hired replacements quite a while ago. While I think there is some chance that you would show up for a Northwest flight and find that the airline had suddenly gone out

Re: RFC Editor RFP Review Request

2006-07-20 Thread John Levine
retrieval from ftp.isi.edu worked just fine. I'm using the fairly vanilla ftp client that comes with FreeBSD, with no special switches. Regards, John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Primary Perpetrator of The Internet for Dummies, Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, Mayor

Re: *.ppt slides

2006-11-13 Thread John Levine
Hi, will the *.ppt slides be converted again to *.html ? For the impatient yet theologically pure, OpenOffice 2.0.4 does a surprisingly good job of importing ppt files and exporting either html or PDF. R's, John ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org

Re: do it yourself roots, was Something better than DNS?

2006-11-27 Thread John Levine
hacks won't work with DNSSEC, but we'll burn that bridge when we get to it. Regards, John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Primary Perpetrator of The Internet for Dummies, Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, Mayor More Wiener schnitzel, please, said Tom, revealingly

Re: Something better than DNS?

2006-11-28 Thread John Levine
technically. So, basically, I'm not sure what people are arguing about here. The DNS of 2006 is not the DNS of 1992. Deal with it, we're not going back. Regards, John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Primary Perpetrator of The Internet for Dummies, Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http

Re: DNS Choices: Was: [ietf-dkim] Re: Last Call: 'DomainKeys

2006-12-06 Thread John Levine
it's white paper #1 near the bottom of the page. Regards, John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Primary Perpetrator of The Internet for Dummies, Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, Mayor More Wiener schnitzel, please, said Tom, revealingly

Re: adoption times (was Re: DNS Choices)

2006-12-14 Thread John Levine
. Tnx. Regards, John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Primary Perpetrator of The Internet for Dummies, Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, Mayor More Wiener schnitzel, please, said Tom, revealingly. PS: In case anyone asks, Neustar isn't a party

Re: IETF 68 hotel full

2006-12-18 Thread John Levine
On the other hand, the Hilton web site just offered me a room for IETF week at E152 which appears to be the IETF rate, so it's not all that sold out. Regards, John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Primary Perpetrator of The Internet for Dummies, Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com

Re: Warning - risk of duty free stuff being confiscated on the way to Prague

2007-03-11 Thread John Levine
I believe there are similar issues for travel to the US -- Right. Any time you are flying to or from the US or to or from the UK, you can expect the inane rule that liquids must fit in a baggie to apply. So if you want that cheap bottle of Scotch to dull the pain of interminable BOF sessions,

Re: Fwd: Pingsta Invitation

2007-03-24 Thread John Levine
It does appear to be a legitimate attempt at a niche social networking site targeting networking engineers, but I'm not sure we need one. If we can't do social networking via existing communication channels like, you know, e-mail, we're pretty lousy networking engineers. Regards, John Levine

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

2007-06-09 Thread John Levine
Since section 5 Message Submission Authentication/Authorization Technologies mentions only SMTP AUTH and TLS, does it mean that authentication by IP addresses is forbidden? I ask so because it is currently the most common way to weakly authenticate local users. Is it covered by Depending upon the

Re: take the train in Chicago

2007-07-15 Thread John Levine
subway from Midway to Adams/Wabash. Regards, John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Primary Perpetrator of The Internet for Dummies, Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, ex-Mayor More Wiener schnitzel, please, said Tom, revealingly

Re: selling IPv4 addresses

2007-08-03 Thread John Levine
I don't see whay you can't sell your phone number. You can sell your 800/888/877/866 number, but not your POTS number. Toll free numbers are more like domain names, in that you have to find a provider to host it and to put an entry into the DNS-like database that phone switches consult to decide

Re: the curse of the S(imple) protocols, was: Re: e2e

2007-08-17 Thread John Levine
Given that paypa1.com was the very first phishing attack I saw, and that there was a cert... Really? It belongs to ebay. But you are quite right, getting an SSL cert is so easy these days that it's not useful for much. Maybe the green bar certs that are supposed to be harder to get will help.

Re: IETF solution for pairing cellular hosts

2007-09-25 Thread John Levine
people here (scraped off web sites) to whom I'd just love to make recorded phone calls. Can I use your protocol to ask them all if it's OK? If not, why not, and how are you going to stop me? Regards, John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Primary Perpetrator of The Internet for Dummies, Information

Re: Random addresses answering TMDA Queries

2007-10-02 Thread John Levine
with essentially no false positives, which is true, they don't believe it. Regards, John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Primary Perpetrator of The Internet for Dummies, Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, ex-Mayor More Wiener schnitzel, please, said Tom, revealingly

Re: Spammers answering TMDA Queries

2007-10-04 Thread John Levine
how many of us are now sending with DKIM or Microsoft's scheme? It might be worthwhile making ietf.org apply a policy to senders that would recognize normal participants and disallow known spam domains. Um, spammers haven't sent mail from known spam domains since about 2001. These days spam

Re: Westin Bayshore throwing us out

2007-11-27 Thread John Levine
They offered to put me up in the Renaissance 5 blocks away, The ICANN meeting a couple of years ago was at the Bayshore, and I stayed at the Renaissance because the Bayshore was full. When we were there, the weather was unseasonably severe, with temperatures plunging below 0 C and snow blown

Re: IETF 72 -- Dublin!

2008-02-06 Thread John Levine
The descriptions of the venue make clear that, once again, the IETF is meeting in a ghetto. Periodic bus service doesn't counteract that. If you look at the Google map and satellite photos of the venue, there appears to be quite a lot of residential and commercial development just east of it.

Re: IETF 71 - no room at the inn at all on Thursday

2008-02-12 Thread John Levine
I'm on the phone to Doubletree reservations trying to make a reservation for the 9th to the 14th, and she tells me that there are no rooms in the IETF block on the 13th, ... She came back and said there are no rooms at the Doubletree at all on the 13th, not at the rack rate or anything. I

IETF 71 - no room at the inn on Thursday

2008-02-12 Thread John Levine
at Hilton to make the block rectangular and have 100 rooms every night, not just some of them? Regards, John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Primary Perpetrator of The Internet for Dummies, Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, ex-Mayor More Wiener schnitzel, please, said Tom

Re: Possible RFC 3683 PR-action

2008-03-25 Thread John Levine
o how widespread, and how frequent, a problem this is, In terms of the number of people, it's tiny. I can only think of three incorrigibly abusive people that bother the IETF, and even if I polled everyone here to name candidates, I doubt that I'd run out of fingers. On the other hand, the

Re: Last Call: draft-klensin-rfc2821bis

2008-03-26 Thread John Levine
IPv4-only hosts can see the record even if they can't directly send mail to that address. and there's no reason (obvious or otherwise) why a MTA should reject mail from a host just because that MTA can't directly route to it Well, other than the practical fact that it's almost

Re: Last Call: draft-klensin-rfc2821bis

2008-03-26 Thread John Levine
Not to be cynical or anything, but regardless of what we decree, I think it's vanishingly unlikely that many systems on the public Internet* will accept mail from a domain with only an record. I think it's vanishing unlikely that email will be useful at all, if spam filter writers

Re: Last Call: draft-klensin-rfc2821bis

2008-03-29 Thread John Levine
But please indulge me --- exactly what is the benefit of deprecating the A fallback, and/or not doing a lookup on the record if the MX record doesn't exist? Under the current setup, any domain that has an A record is presumed to be a mail domain, and if it's not, there's no good way to

Re: Last Call: draft-klensin-rfc2821bis

2008-03-30 Thread John Levine
to non-mail domains is significant. I have at least one host name that was never a mail domain, but since it used to appear in usenet headers it gets over 30,000 spams a day, every day. I'm not convinced you've identifed causality ... only correlation. The causality is that its name was

Re: Blue Sheet Change Proposal

2008-04-04 Thread John Levine
spammed is some combination of anecdotal and ancient, since it's rather unlikely that anyone is stealing them in the meeting rooms. Regards, John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Primary Perpetrator of The Internet for Dummies, Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, ex-Mayor More

Re: IESG Statement on Spam Control on IETF Mailing Lists

2008-04-14 Thread John Levine
* IETF mailing lists MUST provide a mechanism for legitimate technical participants to bypass moderation, challenge-response, or other techniques that would interfere with a prompt technical debate on the mailing list without requiring such participants to receive list traffic. Here,

Re: ISSN for RFC Series under Consideration

2008-05-21 Thread John Levine
than the tiny effort to update the publishing tools to put it in a header line, but I also don't see any benefit. Regards, John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Primary Perpetrator of The Internet for Dummies, Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, ex-Mayor More Wiener schnitzel

Re: 64bit time_t

2008-06-21 Thread John Levine
which maintains the POSIX standards. Neither of these groups is related to the IETF. Regards, John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Primary Perpetrator of The Internet for Dummies, Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, ex-Mayor More Wiener schnitzel, please, said Tom

Re: Appeal against IESG blocking DISCUSS on draft-klensin-rfc2821bis

2008-06-25 Thread John Levine
In the case of this draft, have the owners of the identifiers been contacted by the author, and do they agree to this use? Perhaps you might want to compare the draft with RFC 2821, which was published over seven years ago, and then reconsider the question. Regards, John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Update of RFC 2606 based on the recent ICANN changes ?

2008-06-29 Thread John Levine
It seems like additional TLD domains, beyond just the 4 in RFC 2606, should be either reserved or blocked. In view of Recommendation 4 in ICANN's new GTLD process document, why do you think this is necessary? You have read the report, haven't you? Regards, John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: SHOULD vs MUST case sensitivity

2008-07-01 Thread John Levine
* Whenever the keywords are used they are to be considered normative * Whenever the keywords are used they SHOULD be capitalized Ahem: * Whenever the keywords are used they MUST be capitalized * Editors SHOULD avoid use of normative keywords for non-normative language, even in drafts. Yes, I

Re: problem dealing w/ ietf.org mail servers

2008-07-03 Thread John Levine
them in line with modern practice, even changes that are compatible with equally ancient STD documents. So, yeah, spam stinks, but it's not going away, and arguments that you shouldn't use a technique today because it didn't work in 1998 don't cut it. Regards, John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Primary

Re: problem dealing w/ ietf.org mail servers

2008-07-03 Thread John Levine
that's hardly a justification for stupidity. I entirely agree. Where we evidently don't agree is about what's stupid. R's, John ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Services and top-level DNS names (was: Re: Update of RFC 2606

2008-07-04 Thread John Levine
, since you are concerned about this proposal. Do you think that recommendations 3, 4, and 20 are adequate to address this problem? If not, why not? Regards, John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Primary Perpetrator of The Internet for Dummies, Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http

Re: Services and top-level DNS names (was: Re: Update of RFC 2606

2008-07-04 Thread John Levine
the TLD and its registrants? Also keep in mind that most of those apex records are in ccTLDs over which ICANN and the IETF have no authority, so no matter what the we were to say, they're not going away. Regards, John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Primary Perpetrator of The Internet for Dummies

Re: Services and top-level DNS names (was: Re: Update of RFC 2606

2008-07-05 Thread John Levine
problems on its plate, like registrars who steal people's names and won't give them back. This isn't one of them. Regards, John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Primary Perpetrator of The Internet for Dummies, Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, ex-Mayor More Wiener

Re: Services and top-level DNS names (was: Re: Update of RFC 2606

2008-07-06 Thread John Levine
The problem is that [EMAIL PROTECTED] is not globally unique. MIT users will have problems talk to [EMAIL PROTECTED] when ai means Anguilla. The is a current security issue. If / when MIT stop using ai.mit.edu, [EMAIL PROTECTED] will not longer mean

Re: Services and top-level DNS names (was: Re: Update of RFC 2606

2008-07-06 Thread John Levine
Again you are asserting that no one has ever been effected. No, I'm saying that you can only cry wolf so many times. The disaster you are predicting has in fact been in progress for over a decade, and the mountains of casualties are nowhere to be found. Someone claiming to be you

Re: Update of RFC 2606 based on the recent ICANN changes ?

2008-07-07 Thread John Levine
What will be the impact of having, perhaps, 1) millions of entries in the root servers, and Let's start by considering thousands of entries, since I see little reason to expect even that many from ICANN's current plans. 2) constant traffic banging on those servers? The latest CAIDA

Re: Update of RFC 2606 based on the recent ICANN changes ?

2008-07-07 Thread John Levine
with a few thousand entries should be well within the capacity of any DNS server. Regards, John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Primary Perpetrator of The Internet for Dummies, Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, ex-Mayor More Wiener schnitzel, please, said Tom, revealingly

Re: Update of RFC 2606 based on the recent ICANN changes ?

2008-07-07 Thread John Levine
Conversely, if root server traffic is an issue, getting networks to clean up their DNS traffic would be much more effective than limiting the number of TLDs. sounds good. and why wouldn't cleaning up DNS traffic include refusing to refer any single-label query (for any record type other than

Re: Update of RFC 2606 based on the recent ICANN changes ?

2008-07-08 Thread John Levine
the selection bias of people whose configuration preferences were set on the T1 backbone. Regards, John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Primary Perpetrator of The Internet for Dummies, Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, ex-Mayor More Wiener schnitzel, please, said Tom

Re: Simpler than draft-rfc-image-files-00.txt

2008-08-26 Thread John Levine
Given that problem statement, a simple solution would be for RFCs to be able to reference art files archived by the RFC Editor using format-neutral URLs. Initially, those art files could be GIFs, PNGs, or PDFs. Years from now, when there are no commonly-available readers for a particular image

Re: Last Call: draft-irtf-asrg-dnsbl (DNS Blacklists and Whitelists)

2008-11-07 Thread John Levine
Hi. All of these questions have come up before on the various lists where this draft was developed, but I suppose it's worth going through them again. On the other hand, I have a few questions: the first one, why Proposed standard? Is it really a good idea to standardize these lists (most being

Re: Last Call: draft-hoffman-dac-vbr (Vouch By Reference) to Proposed Standard

2008-11-07 Thread John Levine
The IANA Considerations section is missing. I suggest registering the header as specified in RFC 3864. We purposely did not make this extensible in this document. I think you're talking past each other here. I read SM's message as adding VBR-Info: to the list of known mail header lines here:

Re: Last Call: draft-irtf-asrg-dnsbl (DNS Blacklists and Whitelists)

2008-11-08 Thread John Levine
standardizing them and formally recommending their use I'm not aware of any language in the current draft that recommends that people use DNSBLs. What it does say is that if you use or publish DNSBLs, here's how they work so you can, you know, interoperate and all that. As I'm sure everyone is

Re: Last Call: draft-irtf-asrg-dnsbl (DNS Blacklists and Whitelists)

2008-11-08 Thread John Levine
Today, messages can just disappear on the way to the user's mailbox (often at or after that last-hop MTA). They do so without NDNs out of fear of blowback, and they do so for two main reasons. ... You know, DNSBLs make mystery disappearances less likely, not more. The DNSBLs that most people

Re: Last Call: draft-irtf-asrg-dnsbl (DNS Blacklists and Whitelists)

2008-11-08 Thread John Levine
Several years ago, my employer's e-mail spam filter blocked the Unicode mailing list as a suspect site. Earlier this year, GoDaddy (registrar of my domain name) did the same, and it took months to figure out what was going on. What connection does any of this have to do with DNSBLs? There

Re: Last Call: draft-irtf-asrg-dnsbl (DNS Blacklists and Whitelists)

2008-11-08 Thread John Levine
Indeed; reputation system for the reputation servers! Of course, if DNSBL operaters were to find the that shoe was on the other foot, such that their reputations were getting judged by the same criteria that sites are declared unclean (i.e., by unauthenticated rumor), ... Why do you assume that

Re: Last Call: draft-irtf-asrg-dnsbl (DNS Blacklists and Whitelists)

2008-11-08 Thread John Levine
I've got two separate and unrelated incidents in the last 10 days in which RBL lists have decided to block some (but not all) of Comcast's outbound mail servers. ... I remain baffled by this line of argument. If anecdotes about DNSBLs not run the way you like disqualify even describing the

Re: draft-irtf-asrg-bcp-blacklists

2008-11-08 Thread John Levine
Standard Track and BCP RFCs are part of the IETF document stream. The proposed IRTF document stream (draft-irtf-rfcs) doesn't create a new class of documents called IRTF BCPs. Quite right. That's why we're having the argument here about draft-irtf-asrg-dnsbl-08. Shouldn't the headings of the

Re: Last Call: draft-irtf-asrg-dnsbl (DNS Blacklists and Whitelists)

2008-11-10 Thread John Levine
That's a rather narrow view. Very large numbers of people think that Instant Messaging is a far superior alternative to DNSBLs, not to mention VoIP, web forums and other variations on the theme. I can certainly believe that there are people who think that, but if those very large numbers of

Re: IP-based reputation services vs. DNSBL (long)

2008-11-10 Thread John Levine
I hope the charter, unlike the previous one, will require the development of a protocol for communicating email sender reputation that can be implemented in email products without known patent encumbrances that are incompatible with open source software. Email is simply too important to allow

Re: not spoofing, was IP-based reputation services vs. DNSBL

2008-11-12 Thread John Levine
. Since spamming involves a lot more outbound than inbound traffic, this still let them use most of the T1. When the dialup ISP noticed and cancelled the dialup account, they'd just switch to another one, typically using a stack of free trial AOL disks. Regards, John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Primary

Re: uncooperative DNSBLs, was several messages

2008-11-13 Thread John Levine
Given that the well known DNSBL causing me grief totally ignores my requests for removal, ... I'd be interested in knowing what DNSBL it is. Spamhaus PBL? MAPS/Trend DUL? SORBS? Something else? All the anonymous denunciations here are getting a bit tedious. R's, John

Re: Context specific semantics was Re: uncooperative DNSBLs, was several messages

2008-11-14 Thread John Levine
that. It's certainly a band-aid, but like real life band-aids it does the job without making things worse and easily enough that people are actually likely to do it. What you're proposing is a skin graft, which would be more elegant if it happened, but it won't. Regards, John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: more bad ideas, was uncooperative DNSBLs, was several messages

2008-11-14 Thread John Levine
For instance, what would happen if mail servers provided feedback to both senders (on a per message basis in the form of NDNs) Well, since 95% of all mail is spam, and all the spam has fake return addresses, you'd increase the amount of bogus NDNs by more than an order of magnitude. No thanks.

Re: Last Call: draft-irtf-asrg-dnsbl (DNS Blacklists and Whitelists)

2008-11-16 Thread John Levine
The expectation is that error messages generated from TXT records contain the actual IP addresses which triggered the DNSBL lookups. As a result, if you list a /16 (say), you need publish 65,536 different TXT records. Some do, some don't. In any event I agree that DNSSEC is not ideally suited

Re: Why the IETF is irrelevant to the future of e-mail

2008-12-09 Thread John Levine
Nothing personal, but you could hardly ask for a better illustration. For one thing, this isn't a case of broken DNSBLs, it's a case of getting what you asked for. Rather than using shared DNSBLs, this tiny host on a non-profit public access network is desperately trying to run its own spam

Re: IPR Questions Raised by Sam Hartman at the IETF 73 Plenary

2008-12-13 Thread John Levine
licenses from as many old authors or their heirs as it can. Regards, John Levine, jo...@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of The Internet for Dummies, Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, ex-Mayor More Wiener schnitzel, please, said Tom, revealingly

Re: RFC 5378 contributions

2009-01-15 Thread John Levine
us into the swamp of what legal system we're subject to. I do have to say that this whole argument seems awfully hypothetical to me. No sensible person will ever sue for his text being reused from an RFC, non-sensible people will sue no matter what we do. Regards, John Levine, jo...@iecc.com

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: The IETF Trustees invite your comments on ...

2009-01-24 Thread John Levine
And, while IANAL, my understanding from what we've been told repeatedly is that fair use exemption is a US concept, so your sentence should stop after significant re-use of material Many other countries have similar doctrines, often called fair dealing in common law or written as specific

Re: [Fwd: Last Call: draft-hoffman-dac-vbr (Vouch By Reference) to Proposed Standard]

2009-02-04 Thread John Levine
What about senders from small emerging market countries having a very hard time getting any widely accepted assurance group to vouch for them? Also in more mature markets, not all of the existing companies and universities running their own mail servers will be eager to spend $5000/year on a

Re: [Fwd: Last Call: draft-hoffman-dac-vbr (Vouch By Reference) to Proposed Standard]

2009-02-06 Thread John Levine
If the technology is deployed by 100% of the community providing professional email operations, both on the sending and the receiving sides, as Dave expects, ... I'm not Dave, but I cannot imagine where you got the idea that he expects the community providing professional email operation to

Re: how to contact the IETF

2009-02-09 Thread John Levine
IIRC, from the previous time, not one person stuck around afterwards to actually initiate a dialog. That is my recollection as well. Given the cut and paste errors in many of the messages, I don't get the impression that our new friends, polite though they may be, are particularly well informed

Re: FWIW: guessing about draft-housley-tls-authz-extns-07.txt to Proposed Standard

2009-02-10 Thread John Levine
is here: http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/wo.jsp?IA=US2006001342wo=2006081085DISPLAY=STATUS Regards, John Levine, jo...@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of The Internet for Dummies, Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, ex-Mayor More Wiener schnitzel, please, said Tom, revealingly

Re: It's time for some new steps (was: [Welcome to the Ietf-honest mailing list])

2009-02-10 Thread John Levine
I see your point, but does it warrant a perpetual irrevocable ban on all interactions? In Dean's case, yes. There's a great deal of history here. R's, John ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: [Fwd: Re: Changes needed to Last Call boilerplate]

2009-02-14 Thread John Levine
Despite currently excessive number of comments, I think we should invite more comments and make it easier, not harder to send them. Even if traffic on the list is now too high and information content per message is low, in general our average number of comments in the IETF Last Call stage is

Re: [Fwd: Re: Changes needed to Last Call boilerplate]

2009-02-16 Thread John Levine
The problem isn't sending the comments, it's getting people to read drafts, think about them, and offer cogent comments. It is not clear if you imply that people read more the comments than the drafts. However, comments and drafts are not formally linked. It doesn't matter whether they read

Re: Previous consensus on not changing patent policy (Re: References to Redphone's patent)

2009-02-16 Thread John Levine
But are the 1,000 or so emails in recent days from the FSF campaign not a loud enough hum to recognize that our IPR policy is out of tune? Are you really saying that all it takes is a mob motivated by an misleading screed to make the IETF change direction? From the sample of the FSF letters I

Re: Proposal to create IETF IPR Advisory Board

2009-02-17 Thread John Levine
It seems to me that people arguing to establish an IPR Advisory Board have the better argument. Well, OK. We're looking forward to the draft describing what such a board's charter is, how its members are selected and what their qualifications would be, where its operations fit into the IETF

Re: Proposal to create IETF IPR Advisory Board

2009-02-18 Thread John Levine
If the IETF chooses to ignore the FSF, I don't think that strategy will work. It's worked for the past 20 years. What's different now? R's, John ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

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