Re: [Asrg] misconception in SPF

Andrew Sullivan <ajs@anvilwalrusden.com> Sat, 08 December 2012 23:38 UTC

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On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 07:43:03PM +0100, Alessandro Vesely wrote:
>   would enable receivers, at the cost of an extra lookup, to infer
> that iecc.com is in the same administrative domain of that mailer, for
> reputation or reporting purposes.

I wrote a draft discussing some of these problems, and have talked
about it on the Applications Area list (and in one of the meetings).

> Aren't there generic (i.e. non spf-specific) DNS conventions for
> publishing such relationships?

No, but comments on
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-sullivan-domain-origin-assert-02
would be most welcome.

A

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