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Re: [mail-vet-discuss] What is the A-R header really for?

2007-10-17 07:06:20
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:27:23 +0100, Eliot Lear <lear(_at_)cisco(_dot_)com> 
wrote:

Ok, well then we don't agree.  The information simply cannot be trusted
unless it's signed, and if it's signed there will be agents that can't
verify it.  I can tell you that I would encourage administrators to
strip it at the border because of the risk of misinterpretation and
spoofing.  This having been said, the wording used in Section 3.1 is
close.  I would make the first two SHOULD NOTs  MUST NOTs.

-1

It would be stretching RFC2119 beyond its breaking point to use MUST NOT for those two.

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