Re: [DNSOP] I-D Action:draft-ietf-dnsop-reflectors-are-evil-06.txt

[Roy Arends <roy at dnss.ec>]

On Sep 10, 2008, at 9:17 PM, Ron Bonica wrote:

> Folks,
>
> Based on the response that we have seen from the WG so far, I don't  
> see
> any reason to amend the draft. BCP 38 is already published.

In defense of publishing draft-ietf-dnsop-reflectors-are-evil I'd like  
to put forward the following article that was part of a paper I co- 
authored in 2005. I do this to show that the publication of this draft  
is long overdue, and that I rather have it published sooner than  
later. Furthermore, to defend against abuse that includes open- 
resolvers I would welcome an RFC as soon as possible, to have a  
boilerplate that I can show folks, who unknowingly run open resolvers,  
but need a pointer to defend the cost of configuration change to their  
management.

The article:

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everyone, either intentionally or as a side effect.  The rise of spam  
taught us that this approach was not well suited for the real world,  
so over time most open relays were closed.  Spam did not cease but  
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