Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Re: Documents for LMAP BOF]

Hadmut Danisch wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 05:17:20PM -0500, Yakov Shafranovich wrote:
> 
>>Let me play a little devil's advocate here:
>>
>>If the entire purpose of these proposals is to make sure that the sender 
>>is who he claims to be according to DNS information, 
> 
> Let me be the devil himself:
> 
> Since there is no semantic defined for being a sender, 
> since we tend to confuse sending MTA, envelope sender, 
> forwarder, mailing list, and all such things, 
> 
> we don't care at all who is the sender. All this is about
> is to find the name of a domain who is willing to cover
> the mail transport with a LMAP entry matching the IP address
> and which we can hold reliable in case the message turns out
> to be fraud. We don't care who is the sender. We won't to know 
> who we can blame in case we need one to blame.

If so, then HELO checking with DRIP is sufficient :)

Yakov

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Yakov Shafranovich / asrg <at> shaftek.org
SolidMatrix Technologies, Inc. / research <at> solidmatrix.com
"But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and 
taxes" (Benjamin Franklin)
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