RE: Re: [Fwd: [Asrg-Chair] a new draft]

The purpose of said draft is a subset of the purpose of the RMX drafts. I
feel that if it is going to considered within the ASRG, then it needs to be
part of this discussion.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan DeKok [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 11:27 AM
> To: Yakov Shafranovich
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: [asrg-rmx] Re: [Fwd: [Asrg-Chair] a new draft] 
> 
> 
> > Let me know whether you want to use this draft in any way, or if you
> > want to leave this outside the RMX subgroup.
> 
>   I think it's outside of the scope of ASRG-RMX, as ASRG-RMX 
> is trying to key off of domain names, to discover such 
> information.  There is overlap with the content of the TXT 
> records, which describe the information about MTA's for the domain.
> 
> ...
> > >      http://www.space.net/~maex/draft-irtf-asrg-mtamark-00.txt
> > > Please note that it is not related to RMX propsalsas it doesn't 
> > > implement any domainname or sender checks. It's sole 
> purpose is to 
> > > mark a MTA in DNS as "is a MTA" or "is not a MTA".
> 
> 
>   It's a small step from this draft to a fully-fledged 
> ASRG-RMX implementation.  The biggest issues are that some 
> domains may not have control over reverse DNS, which makes it 
> difficult for them to implement this proposal.  In contrast, 
> we know that domains control MX records in their own domain, 
> so adding one more field for ASRG-RMX isn't much of a problem.
> 
>   Alan DeKok.
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