Re: Sufficient email authentication requirements for IPv6

2013-04-11 Thread Arturo Servin
On 4/10/13 7:55 PM, John Levine wrote: There seems to be a faction that feel that 15 years ago someone once blacklisted them and caused them some inconvenience, therefore all DNSBLs suck forever. I could say similar things about buggy PC implementations of TCP/IP, but I think a few things

Re: Sufficient email authentication requirements for IPv6

2013-04-11 Thread Arturo Servin
Somebody point me to see that the date of the post in circleid is April 1st ... :) -as On 4/11/13 11:17 AM, Arturo Servin wrote: On 4/10/13 7:55 PM, John Levine wrote: There seems to be a faction that feel that 15 years ago someone once blacklisted them and caused them some

Re: Sufficient email authentication requirements for IPv6

2013-04-11 Thread Hector Santos
I don't have the same overall feeling that its less reliable. I believe it is 100% reliable when it comes to the good communications, the serious stuff, the work, business communications. Those get through and more importantly, above all, when there is a problem, good people complain, any

Re: Sufficient email authentication requirements for IPv6

2013-04-10 Thread Keith Moore
On 04/09/2013 08:07 PM, John Levine wrote: Quoting Nathaniel Borenstein [1]: One man's blacklist is another's denial-of-service attack. Email reputation services have a bad reputation. They have a good enough reputation that every non-trivial mail system in the world uses them. They're

Re: Sufficient email authentication requirements for IPv6

2013-04-10 Thread Douglas Otis
On Apr 10, 2013, at 6:26 AM, Keith Moore mo...@network-heretics.com wrote: On 04/09/2013 08:07 PM, John Levine wrote: Quoting Nathaniel Borenstein [1]: One man's blacklist is another's denial-of-service attack. Email reputation services have a bad reputation. They have a good enough

Re: Sufficient email authentication requirements for IPv6

2013-04-10 Thread John Levine
There seems to be a faction that feel that 15 years ago someone once blacklisted them and caused them some inconvenience, therefore all DNSBLs suck forever. I could say similar things about buggy PC implementations of TCP/IP, but I think a few things have changed since then, in both cases.

Re: Sufficient email authentication requirements for IPv6

2013-04-10 Thread Keith Moore
On 04/10/2013 06:55 PM, John Levine wrote: There seems to be a faction that feel that 15 years ago someone once blacklisted them and caused them some inconvenience, therefore all DNSBLs suck forever. I could say similar things about buggy PC implementations of TCP/IP, but I think a few things

Re: Sufficient email authentication requirements for IPv6

2013-04-10 Thread John R Levine
Like I said, things have changed since 1996. Indeed they have. Email is much less reliable now than it was then. Agreed. But it's not the DNSBLs, it's all the other stuff, notably heuristic content filters, that we have to do to deal with the 95% of mail that is spam these days. I

Re: Sufficient email authentication requirements for IPv6

2013-04-10 Thread Keith Moore
On 04/10/2013 07:14 PM, John R Levine wrote: Like I said, things have changed since 1996. Indeed they have. Email is much less reliable now than it was then. Agreed. But it's not the DNSBLs, it's all the other stuff, notably heuristic content filters, that we have to do to deal with the

Re: Sufficient email authentication requirements for IPv6

2013-04-09 Thread Keith Moore
On 03/29/2013 01:28 PM, Douglas Otis wrote: The Internet is under a DDoS attack specifically against an email address reputation service. You have it backwards. Internet email has long been under DDoS attack from email address reputation services. Keith

Re: Sufficient email authentication requirements for IPv6

2013-04-09 Thread Douglas Otis
On Apr 8, 2013, at 10:27 PM, joel jaeggli joe...@bogus.com wrote: On 4/8/13 9:18 PM, Douglas Otis wrote: On Mar 31, 2013, at 1:23 AM, Doug Barton do...@dougbarton.us mailto:do...@dougbarton.us wrote: On 03/30/2013 11:26 PM, Christian Huitema wrote: IPv6 makes publishing IP address

Re: Sufficient email authentication requirements for IPv6

2013-04-09 Thread SM
Hi Keith, At 09:56 09-04-2013, Keith Moore wrote: You have it backwards. Internet email has long been under DDoS attack from email address reputation services. Quoting Nathaniel Borenstein [1]: One man's blacklist is another's denial-of-service attack. Email reputation services have a

Re: Sufficient email authentication requirements for IPv6

2013-04-09 Thread Douglas Otis
On Apr 9, 2013, at 11:28 AM, SM s...@resistor.net wrote: Hi Keith, At 09:56 09-04-2013, Keith Moore wrote: You have it backwards. Internet email has long been under DDoS attack from email address reputation services. Quoting Nathaniel Borenstein [1]: One man's blacklist is

Re: Sufficient email authentication requirements for IPv6

2013-04-09 Thread John Levine
Quoting Nathaniel Borenstein [1]: One man's blacklist is another's denial-of-service attack. Email reputation services have a bad reputation. They have a good enough reputation that every non-trivial mail system in the world uses them. They're not all the same, and a Darwinian process has

Re: Sufficient email authentication requirements for IPv6

2013-04-09 Thread SM
Hi Doug, At 12:22 09-04-2013, Douglas Otis wrote: In full agreement with Nathaniel. Avoiding unfair collateral blocking is why source domain authentication, not authorization, is vital. I doubt that what's mentioned in the subject line will not face strong resistance within an IETF context.

Re: Sufficient email authentication requirements for IPv6

2013-04-08 Thread Douglas Otis
On Mar 31, 2013, at 1:23 AM, Doug Barton do...@dougbarton.us wrote: On 03/30/2013 11:26 PM, Christian Huitema wrote: IPv6 makes publishing IP address reputations impractical. Since IP address reputation has been a primary method for identifying abusive sources with IPv4, imposing

Re: Sufficient email authentication requirements for IPv6

2013-04-08 Thread joel jaeggli
On 4/8/13 9:18 PM, Douglas Otis wrote: On Mar 31, 2013, at 1:23 AM, Doug Barton do...@dougbarton.us mailto:do...@dougbarton.us wrote: On 03/30/2013 11:26 PM, Christian Huitema wrote: IPv6 makes publishing IP address reputations impractical. Since IP address reputation has been a primary

Re: Sufficient email authentication requirements for IPv6

2013-04-04 Thread Hector Santos
; O'Reirdan,Michael michael_oreir...@cable.comcast.com; John C Klensin john-i...@jck.com; Walker,Severin severin_wal...@cable.comcast.com; Rosenwald,Jordan jordan_rosenw...@cable.comcast.com; John Levine jo...@taugh.com Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2013 8:01 PM Subject: Re: Sufficient email

Re: Sufficient email authentication requirements for IPv6

2013-04-03 Thread Dean Willis
On Mar 30, 2013, at 10:43 AM, John C Klensin john-i...@jck.com wrote: It sometimes feels as if anti-spam efforts are trending in the direction of its being acceptable to accidentally discard a few dozen legitimate messages if doing so allows blocking a few thousand unsolicited/undesired

Re: Sufficient email authentication requirements for IPv6

2013-04-03 Thread Ted Lemon
On Apr 3, 2013, at 6:16 PM, Dean Willis dean.wil...@softarmor.com wrote: I've tried to imagine using Facebook-like system for IETF work, and it is strangely compelling ... It would, however, be nice if it were peer-to-peer rather than monolithic.

Re: Sufficient email authentication requirements for IPv6

2013-04-03 Thread Doug Barton
On 04/03/2013 05:01 PM, Ted Lemon wrote: On Apr 3, 2013, at 6:16 PM, Dean Willis dean.wil...@softarmor.com wrote: I've tried to imagine using Facebook-like system for IETF work, and it is strangely compelling ... It would, however, be nice if it were peer-to-peer rather than monolithic.

Re: Sufficient email authentication requirements for IPv6

2013-04-02 Thread Douglas Otis
On Mar 30, 2013, at 11:26 PM, Christian Huitema huit...@microsoft.com wrote: IPv6 makes publishing IP address reputations impractical. Since IP address reputation has been a primary method for identifying abusive sources with IPv4, imposing ineffective and flaky replacement strategies has

RE: Sufficient email authentication requirements for IPv6

2013-03-31 Thread Christian Huitema
IPv6 makes publishing IP address reputations impractical.  Since IP address reputation has been a primary method for identifying abusive sources with IPv4, imposing ineffective and flaky replacement strategies has an effect of deterring IPv6 use. In practice, the /64 prefix of the IPv6

Re: Sufficient email authentication requirements for IPv6

2013-03-31 Thread Doug Barton
On 03/30/2013 11:26 PM, Christian Huitema wrote: IPv6 makes publishing IP address reputations impractical. Since IP address reputation has been a primary method for identifying abusive sources with IPv4, imposing ineffective and flaky replacement strategies has an effect of deterring IPv6

Re: Sufficient email authentication requirements for IPv6

2013-03-31 Thread John Levine
In practice, the /64 prefix of the IPv6 address has very much the same administrative properties as the /32 value of the IPv4 address. You would hope so, but I know hosting places that give their customers a /128 in a shared /64. They claim that their routers make this hard to fix. I don't know

Re: Sufficient email authentication requirements for IPv6

2013-03-31 Thread Hector Santos
Good points Dave. However, I would suggest that having tighter controls on the transport practice, e.g.; SMTP handshaking compliancy, following and honoring exclusive domain published policies, does help minimize support cost. -- HLS On 3/30/2013 7:46 PM, Dave Crocker wrote: On 3/30/2013

Re: Sufficient email authentication requirements for IPv6

2013-03-30 Thread Hector Santos
Hi Doug, This sounds urgent. I am not seeing this urgency, but maybe we just have it under control. Another side question Doug, is this an application-level based filtering? Can one be authenticated lets say for SMTP but not WEB? Is the filtering applied across all protocols? Is it the IP

Re: Sufficient email authentication requirements for IPv6

2013-03-30 Thread Livingood, Jason
On 3/29/13 12:58 PM, John Levine jo...@taugh.com wrote: As a result, it is questionable whether any IPv6 address-based reputation system can be successful (at least those based on voluntary principles.) It can probably work for whitelisting well behaved senders, give or take the DNS cache

Re: Sufficient email authentication requirements for IPv6

2013-03-30 Thread John C Klensin
--On Saturday, March 30, 2013 14:57 + Livingood, Jason jason_living...@cable.comcast.com wrote: ... Mail acceptance for IPv4 worked inclusively - receivers accept unless IP reputation or other factors failed. IMHO with IPv6 that model may need to be turned around to an exclusive one -

Re: Sufficient email authentication requirements for IPv6

2013-03-30 Thread Douglas Otis
Dear Jason, On Mar 30, 2013, at 7:57 AM, Livingood, Jason jason_living...@cable.comcast.com wrote: On 3/29/13 12:58 PM, John Levine jo...@taugh.com wrote: As a result, it is questionable whether any IPv6 address-based reputation system can be successful (at least those based on voluntary

Re: Sufficient email authentication requirements for IPv6

2013-03-30 Thread Dave Crocker
On 3/30/2013 7:57 AM, Livingood, Jason wrote: Mail acceptance for IPv4 worked inclusively - receivers accept unless IP reputation or other factors failed. IMHO with IPv6 that model may need to be turned around to an exclusive one - so receivers will not accept mail unless certain factors are

Re: Sufficient email authentication requirements for IPv6

2013-03-30 Thread SM
At 07:57 30-03-2013, Livingood, Jason wrote: Mail acceptance for IPv4 worked inclusively - receivers accept unless IP reputation or other factors failed. IMHO with IPv6 that model may need to be turned around to an exclusive one - so receivers will not accept mail unless certain factors are met

Re: Sufficient email authentication requirements for IPv6

2013-03-29 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Thu, 28 Mar 2013, Douglas Otis wrote: IPv6 makes publishing IP address reputations impractical. Since IP address reputation has been a primary method for identifying abusive sources with IPv4, imposing ineffective and flaky replacement strategies has an effect of deterring IPv6 use. My

Re: Sufficient email authentication requirements for IPv6

2013-03-29 Thread John Curran
On Mar 29, 2013, at 4:13 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson swm...@swm.pp.se wrote: My belief is that IP address reputation has always been flakey, it's just vastly more so with IPv6. What we need is a way to identify a entity subnet size. This work is probably wasted on IPv4, but it's definitely

Re: Sufficient email authentication requirements for IPv6

2013-03-29 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Fri, 29 Mar 2013, John Curran wrote: This approach works fine if one presumes that the problem is always just the customer (i.e. their ISP is actively interested in helping solve the problem.) For ISPs who are not as interested (or may have an actual motivation to hinder resolution of the

Re: Sufficient email authentication requirements for IPv6

2013-03-29 Thread John Levine
As a result, it is questionable whether any IPv6 address-based reputation system can be successful (at least those based on voluntary principles.) It can probably work for whitelisting well behaved senders, give or take the DNS cache busting issues of IPv6 per-message lookups. Since a bad guy

Re: Sufficient email authentication requirements for IPv6

2013-03-29 Thread Douglas Otis
On Mar 29, 2013, at 9:58 AM, John Levine jo...@taugh.com wrote: As a result, it is questionable whether any IPv6 address-based reputation system can be successful (at least those based on voluntary principles.) It can probably work for whitelisting well behaved senders, give or take the

Re: Sufficient email authentication requirements for IPv6

2013-03-29 Thread Doug Barton
On 03/28/2013 08:29 PM, Douglas Otis wrote: IPv6 makes publishing IP address reputations impractical. For individual addresses, sure. But one of the (if not *the*) primary benefits of v4 reputation is the test of whether or not the address is in a botnet range (aka, ranges assigned to

Re: Sufficient email authentication requirements for IPv6

2013-03-28 Thread Hector Santos
Hi Doug, On 3/28/2013 2:13 PM, Douglas Otis wrote: Dear IETF, In response to various strategies to reject IPv6 email lacking either DKIM or SPF, the non-negotiated approach suggests far greater review is needed. Whats the difference with IPv6 connections? Should it matter? Does it matter?

Re: Sufficient email authentication requirements for IPv6

2013-03-28 Thread Douglas Otis
Hello Hector, On Mar 28, 2013, at 3:53 PM, Hector Santos hsan...@isdg.net wrote: Hi Doug, On 3/28/2013 2:13 PM, Douglas Otis wrote: Dear IETF, In response to various strategies to reject IPv6 email lacking either DKIM or SPF, the non-negotiated approach suggests far greater review is