[122848] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Bellovin)
Mon Feb 22 13:55:39 2010
From: Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
In-Reply-To: <87k4u5i03q.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:51:32 -0500
To: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Cc: NANOG Operators Group <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Feb 22, 2010, at 1:42 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Steven Bellovin:
>=20
>> Bring back the MB or MR DNS records? (Only half a smiley.)
>=20
> Eh, you don't want to put this information into a public database.
> Officially, for privacy reasons. Unofficially, to create a barrier to
> market entry.
>=20
Right; I was not seriously suggesting that the DNS was the right spot =
for it. I am seriously suggesting that a redirect mechanism -- perhaps =
the email equivalent of HTPP's 301/302 -- would be worth considering. =
Then, of course, there's problem of upgrading the $\aleph_0$ mail =
senders out there to comply...
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
