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[ietf-clear] Getting CSV ready for prime time

2004-12-01 06:34:03

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John R Levine" <johnl(_at_)iecc(_dot_)com>
To: <ietf-clear(_at_)mipassoc(_dot_)org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 1:45 AM
Subject: [ietf-clear] Getting CSV ready for prime time


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One thing that became blindingly clear is that if we want people to take
CSV seriously, we need some hack to say that the rest of a domain doesn't
have any mail clients.  That lets domains mark big swaths of their name
space as bad, which would be a significant reason for people to start
looking for CSV records even when there aren't a whole lot of them to
find.


I concur.   It would be very useful (and popular) to blanket entire domains
with "not authorized to send".   The administrative burden to set/maintain
millions of negative SRV records will inhibit (or prevent) significant
deployment of CSV.

While I am not happy with traversing down or up the DNS tree,  it's better
than the alternative: (failure to deploy CSV).

-Sam