[16878] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 1.1.1.0/24
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Fri May 15 14:28:25 1998
From: darcy@druid.net (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
To: pceasy@norfolk.infi.net (Dean Robb)
Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 21:52:04 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980514205003.008a4b10@norfolk.infi.net> from "Dean Robb" at May 14, 1998 08:50:03 PM
Thus spake Dean Robb
> >I think it would be a reasonable proposal for ARIN to modify
> >its SWIP process to do a dnslookup for the email domain to very
> >it as valid. Possibly even a SMTP VRFY or EXPN command.
[...]
> As for the confidentiality matter: there's a problem...a little thing
> called the RFCs. Specifically, RFCs 1032, 1033, 920, 1173, 1174 (and
> several others) require contact information that is "complete, correct and
I think he was referring to organizations that don't reveal the user
data (or reveal bogus data) in response to a SMTP VRFY or EXPN command,
not the data in the whois record.
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