[72976] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: XO Mail engineers?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David A.Ulevitch)
Wed Aug 4 17:50:52 2004
In-Reply-To: <20040804131939.G89818@corp.mt.net>
From: David A.Ulevitch <davidu@everydns.net>
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 14:46:02 -0700
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Aug 4, 2004, at 12:23 PM, Forrest W. Christian wrote:
>
> This BCP seems to be changing. The new BCP which seems to be evolving
> requires customers to authenticate to their home mail server on the MSA
> port and send mail that way. This appears to be being driven by
> SPF/Sender-ID-like mechanisms.
>
And at some point in the not-so-distant future {net|sys}ops will look
up from their terminals, blink their eyes a few times and realize that
they have just spent the last $x months jumping through a terrible
number of hoops to support this SPF/SRS thing because "everyone is
doing it." And they will realize that all that time/effort/money has
still required users to change the way they do things and that
operators had to waste time implementing a half-solution (or less) when
(this may be unspeakable) in a similar amount of time/effort/money a
real (drastic) solution could have been implemented.
I don't think SPF is worthless [1] but it isn't a drop-in solution and
the impact on infrastructure will be significant if it becomes widely
adopted.
I think people will realize that if we're remodeling the boat that much
we should have at least made sure we were fixing something in the
process...
-david
1: SRS may just be a boondoggle, we'll see.
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