On Wed, 7 May 2003 13:14:59 -0700
Phillip Hallam-Baker <Hallam-Baker> wrote:
Should the holder of the DNS keys be a dictator over all the mail
sent from his domain? You say, "Yes!" I say, "Hell no!"
Domain names are not a scarce resource.
They are not scarce technically. They can be scarce politically.
The only way that you can in the long term protect your identity in
cyberspace is to control your own domain.
I don't want to argue this point. I largely came to that view as a
pragmatic statement several years back (and thus registered kanga.nu,
not being willing to deal with NSI), but haven't worked thru it well
enough to state an absolute.
The domain name owner can decide what mail you receive. I see no
reason why control over what is sent is an ideological issue.
The DNS master can control whether or not I receive mail at all under
that domain, and can only do so in an externally obvious fashion. He
can't control what mail I receive, just whether or not I receive any
mail (well, he could do mail forwards, but that's explicitly obvious
from an external view).
Use of RMX, like an inbound MX, gives the DNSmaster and operators of the
smarthost review and editorial capacity over every message sent. It is
no longer possible to either send or receive an individual message (not
mail in general, but any specific message) without the blessing of the
DNS gods.
I much prefer the concept that everyone is master of their own domain
than we have to submit to the predjudices of whoever the self
appointed censor of the week would be.
Agreed, tho there are non-trivial human scaling and service industry
costs there.
--
J C Lawrence
---------(*) Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas.
claw(_at_)kanga(_dot_)nu He lived as a devil, eh?
http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live.
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