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Re: [eweek article] Window of "anonymity" when domain exists, whois not updated yet

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Wed Jan 12 17:42:46 2005

To: Michael.Dillon@radianz.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 12 Jan 2005 11:23:42 GMT."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 17:41:33 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


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On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 11:23:42 GMT, Michael.Dillon@radianz.com said:

> I happen to believe that a web of email peering
> agreements is the best way to get us to the point
> where it is difficult for anyone to anonymously 
> send email because they *MUST* relay it through
> an ISP who will not accept the email for relay
> unless they have authenticated the user.

The X.400 concepts of ADMD= and PRMD= really caught on, didn't they? ;)

Peering in a world of 64K ASNs, mostly basically static, is a lot different
than peering in a world of 40 million plus .COMs, many in motion.  Most of
the time, we're lucky if the MX record points to the right place....


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