[122847] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave CROCKER)
Mon Feb 22 13:54:08 2010
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:51:25 -0800
From: Dave CROCKER <dhc2@dcrocker.net>
To: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <bb0e440a1002220929o2acafc1dvcb21cf2a428384b9@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG Operators Group <nanog@merit.edu>
Reply-To: dcrocker@bbiw.net
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On 2/22/2010 9:29 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> Am I missing something? All the ISP has to do is to provision a pop3
> / imap / webmail mailbox for that user and keep it around.
As a permanent requirement for all accounts, including changes as the user moves
around -- long-term churn is 100% within relatively few years-- and to expect
all domain owners who originally host a mailbox to then do this forwarding admin
and ops competently, this is going to be a serious problem.
The scheme is certain to be quite unreliable along multiple axes.
Worse, I had not thought of Sheldon's excellent point about negative reputation
blowback on the domain owner.
Per the followup comments on this, the domain owner might be able to do some
things in domain name usage and IP Address assignment to mitigate this, the
initial and on-going costs of getting this right and the likelihood of
eliminating all blowback are problematic.
d/
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net
