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Re: moving on from MARID

2004-09-24 11:50:05
In <20040924180634(_dot_)GA26570(_at_)simkin(_dot_)ca> Alan Hodgson 
<ahodgson(_at_)simkin(_dot_)ca> writes:

On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 12:52:07PM -0400, Meng Weng Wong wrote:
  C) SUBMITTER if provided
  D) if checking is done after the DATA command, the PRA
I say "three identities" because C and D are really the same
thing according to the SUBMITTER spec, yet SUBMITTER can be
treated as a first-class identity in its own right.

Does SUBMITTER have any value without being able to check PRA?  Does
it have any real value even if we can check it?  Ya, ya, phishing, but
does anyone really think you can protect users from phishing that
easily?

As far as I can see SUBMITTER has no value and is simply a way of
letting the patent encumbered and badly licensed PRA to slip in to the
SPF community through the back door.


-wayne


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