[51208] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at smtpng.org
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brad Knowles)
Wed Aug 21 19:48:24 2002
In-Reply-To: <001801c24969$c59d0170$030010ac@void>
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 01:33:33 +0200
To: "Robert Blayzor" <rblayzor@inoc.net>,
"'Brad Knowles'" <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
Cc: <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At 7:23 PM -0400 2002/08/21, Robert Blayzor wrote:
>> Sure. Are you willing to be the first?
>
> If it came down to the wire and something like this were implemented,
> and enforced, then yes, I'd be the first in line. If the software, the
> system and the means are available, I'd make sure we were registered
> before the system went live.
Right. How are you going to enforce *anything* on the Internet?
Every single RFC in existence is optional, at best. Every single
black list is certainly optional. And until you can control the
entire Internet and operate the mail servers for everyone in the
world, there's no way in hell that you're going to get everyone to
subscribe to the same white list.
Sorry, guy. Ain't gonna happen.
--
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
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-Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.
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