RE: e2e

[SM <sm at resistor.net>]

At 14:36 16-08-2007, Douglas Otis wrote:
> The resources of recipients who attempt to process SPF record-sets
> can be easily exploited.  SPF might be instrumental in staging DDoS
> attacks or in poisoning DNS, despite the use of BCP38 and ACLs on
> recursive resolvers.  By utilizing local-part macros, cached SPF

I'll keep out of the debate about the advantages and disadvantages of SPF.

At 15:01 16-08-2007, michael.dillon at bt.com wrote:
> Great. A web page last updated in 2003 and an email archive averaging 4
> messages a month this year.

A read of the archive may show that while everyone agrees that there 
is a problem, it's difficult to find consensus as to the solution.

> Now you are criticising an architecture document which does not yet
> exist.

That was not the intent.

Regards,
-sm



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