Doug Ewell skrev:
Magnus Westerlund <magnus dot westerlund at ericsson dot com> wrote:
I think any one of us would be might irritated to learn that the
suddenly started receive spam in large quantities because someone
published their address in example in an internet draft or RFC.
and later:
And I would be kind of annoyed if anyone of you decided to publish one
of my private addresses without my permission. That is why SPAM was
listed as an example.
Is that the concern, that people will start receiving spam to their
e-mail addresses, or excessive or inappropriate hits on their Web site,
unexpectedly or without their permission, because these addresses were
used in an RFC or I-D unexpectedly or without their permission?
From my point of view this is one of many reasons why care needs to be
taken with what one puts into examples. Clearly a minor issue, more
about etiquette than anything else. Configuration files are clearly one
of the major issues where inclusion of someones NTP sever in something
that accidentally gets deployed can amount to a DDoS.
I think that is a completely different use case, and moral problem, from
using one's own e-mail address or URL in a document, or using well-known
addresses such as <Postel(_at_)isi(_dot_)edu> that have already appeared in
well-known and heavily cited RFCs (John's use case that launched the
present debate).
Agreed. And that was not really what the discusses from IESG was based
on either. The one I reacted to where the ones belonging to commercial
websites. Which, I personally consider inappropriate an a bit rude. From
my point of view the long usage and the lack of actual reported issues
and minimal impact a change would have on the situation is why I cleared
when I finally was engaged in any discussion on the issue.
However, the goal with the statement is to cover the general issues not
specific ones.
Cheers
Magnus Westerlund
IETF Transport Area Director & TSVWG Chair
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