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Re: [ietf-smtp] Dotless domains and email

2013-07-11 19:18:35
Hi Dave,
At 22:46 10-07-2013, Dave Crocker wrote:
I got a private note that said at least one member of the IAB was aware of some of the email issues, but felt that focusing purely on the DNS lookup issue was best.

Given that these sorts of Statements are a) political, and b) single occurrence -- there won't be a serious of bite-sized Statements issued -- I'd think it makes more sense to have the document mount every applicable engineering, operations and standards concern it can document, rather than try to be surgical.

Yes.

I'll quote part of one of your messages [1] out of context:

As with all security risks, the requirement is to anticipate them and protect against them, rather than wait to fix things afterwards...

Yes.

People have already disputed SAC 053 on the grounds that it doesn't provide sufficient arguments against dotless domains.

Regards,
-sm

1. msg-id: 51DD8482(_dot_)7050502(_at_)dcrocker(_dot_)net
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