[170291] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jimmy Hess)
Tue Mar 25 23:26:41 2014
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1403252254470.6500@joyce.lan>
From: Jimmy Hess <mysidia@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 22:16:37 -0500
To: "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 9:55 PM, John R. Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
> I would suggest the formation of an "IPv6 SMTP Server operator's club,"
>> with a system for enrolling certain IP address source ranges as "Active
>
> Surely you don't think this is a new idea.
>
Would it make it more unique; if I suggested creation of a new distributed
Cryptocurrency something like 'MAILCoin' to track the memberships in the
club and handle voting out of abusive mail servers: in a distributed
manner, to ensure that no court could ever mandate that a certain IP
address be accepted into the club?
Not necessarily. But I haven't yet heard of any meaningful attempt to
implement something like that. Obviously with IPv4; way too many
"legacy" mail servers exist that will never bother to implement new
protocols and practice improvements ---- even basic things, such as SMTP
rejecting invalid recipients instead of sending unsolicited bounce replies
to senders (forged by spammers).
> R's,
> John
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-JH
