On 5/16/2011 6:28 PM, Joe Abley wrote:
Hi Dave,
I take no position on whether it's in good taste to use the word "whitelist" in
this particular instance or in general, but
On 2011-05-16, at 18:21, Dave CROCKER wrote:
1. It is not previously standardized and I believe it is not documented in an
RFC.
the term appears to have some precedent in the RFC series
(see<http://www.google.com/search?q=whitelist+rfc+site:rfc-editor.org>, which
includes such contexts as DNS, mail, SDP, Atom, v4 and v6 network operations and
SIP), and
silly me, to have forgotten John's effort to document long-establishedn
anti-spam list publication through the DNS, that the IESG would not allow to
have made a standard.
An ironic example, given the current thread.
2. It is typically a split-DNS private/public mechanism.
No.
No doubt you can point to IETF documentation or other related, formal
documentation of this?
(By the way, I'm not saying it's not done, merely that it seems not to have been
documented in the fashion the current draft is attempting. Documentation
history matters, for this sort of thread.)
d/
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net
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