Re: Source routing -- why not?

"John R Levine" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.mxcomp
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> > After further deliberation about source routing and SPF, I have come
> > around to the conclusion that Frank is to some degree right, and if
> > you want to use SPF/Sender-ID, you should use source routes.
>
> Source routes require all mail servers to be open relays.

Only in a naive implementation.  SPF already requires that participating
hosts be prepared to handle arbitrarily complex procedures, so adding one
more shouldn't be a big deal.  If it is a big deal, well, perhaps we're
seeing a problem with SPF more than with source routes.

Regards,
John Levine, [email protected], Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://iecc.com/johnl, Mayor
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